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- Lab number
- TO-8537
- Field number
- 99-DCA-182c
- Material dated
- marine shell; coquillage
- Taxa dated
- Mytilus edulis (408 mg, id. by A.S. Dyke)
- Locality
- in the Innirit Hills, about 17.5 km east of Point Caen, Wollaston Peninsula, Victoria Island, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 87 D/05
- Submitter
- A.S. Dyke and J.M. Savelle
- Date submitted
- February 26, 2002
- Normalized Age
- 4480 ± 70
- Significance
- geoarchaeology; géoarchéologie
- Context
- beach gravel below a Paleoeskimo hearth, 13.5 m asl
- Additional information
- Two fragments showing no encrustation or other evidence of contamination comprised this sample.
- Comments
- NhPk-3 (99-DCA-182): This site is on a raised beach at 13.5 m asl. It contains 11 dwelling features - hearths, tent rings, and midpassages. Three samples were collected from an unvegetated, isolated hearth (i.e., not inside a tent ring or a midpassage) with numerous boiling stones: 182a, burnt bone; 182b, unburnt bone; and 182c Mytilus edulis fragments (TO-8537). The Mytilus probably date the beach rather than the hearth.