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- Lab number
- Beta-162356
- Material dated
- caribou feces; fèces de caribou
- Taxa dated
- Rangifer tarandus
- Locality
- 20 km southwest of Whitehorse, Yukon drainage, southwest Yukon Territory
- Submitter
- R. Farnell
- Date submitted
- October 4, 2005
- Normalized Age
- 1460 ± 40
- Significance
- palaeobiology; paléobiologie
- Context
- 10.3 m above the base of an alpine ice patch
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Rangifer tarandus
- Additional information
- AMS date. TO-7565, 1600 +/- 50 BP, also dates this sample.
- Comments
- JdUt-17, Mount Granger: A permanent snow patch preserves an unusual record of caribou - human interaction spanning more than 8000 years.