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- Lab number
- TO-8543
- Field number
- 99-DCA-254a-2
- Material dated
- marine shell; coquillage
- Taxa dated
- Mytilus edulis (150 mg, identified by A.S. Dyke)
- Locality
- 7.2 km north of Cache Point, Wollaston Peninsula, Victoria Island, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 87 A/10 E
- Submitter
- A.S. Dyke and J.M. Savelle
- Date submitted
- February 26, 2002
- Normalized Age
- 3730 ± 60
- Significance
- Palaeoeskimo; Paléoesquimau
- Context
- beach gravel below a Palaeoeskimo hearth, 18 m asl
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Alopex lagopus, Phoca hispida; Aves
- Additional information
- One piece of shell was given a 30% leach, and the remaining carbonate crust was removed with a Dremel tool.
- Comments
- NePe-4 (99-DCA-254): This site has two Palaeoeskimo mid-passages about 100 m apart on raised beaches at 18 and 19 m elevation. Two samples were collected: 254a, charcoal, shell, and burnt and unburnt bone (later split into 3 samples, charcoal, shell, and bone, the latter mainly fox and bird bones with some ring seal) from a hearth at 0-10 cm depth in open-work gravel from the lower midpassage feature, which measures 3.3 x 1.3 m; and 254b, charcoal and Mytilus edulis fragments from directly below hearth stones in the upper midpassage feature, which measures 2.5 x 1.3 m.