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Canada / NT / NiTs-1 (Gupuk) / AECV-1006C
- Lab number
- AECV-1006C
- Field number
- G-6
- Material dated
- caribou bone collagen; collagène osseux de caribou
- Taxa dated
- Rangifer tarandus
- Locality
- on the southeastern shore of Richards Island, Mackenzie Delta, Northwest Territories
- Map sheet
- 107 C/06
- Submitter
- C.D. Arnold
- Date submitted
- October 13, 0097
- Normalized Age
- 550 ± 90
- Significance
- Neoeskimo, Mackenzie Inuit; Néoesquimau
- Stratigraphic component
- Area 2, midden
- Context
- Area 2, midden, 0-2N/2-3W, 50-60 cm level, composite sample
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Rangifer tarandus (see also AECV-1008)
- Comments
- NiTs-1, Gupuk: This is a Mackenzie Inuit winter village abandoned, according to historical evidence, in the first half of the 19th century. It extends along the bank of Mackenzie River for about 800 m. Erosion has destroyed many houses at this site, but 21 remain more or less intact, and five of these have been excavated. In addition to houses, an exceptionally rich midden, frozen to within a few cm of the surface, yielded abundant wood fragments, bones, and artifacts. Faunal remains from the midden have been studied by Balkwill and Rick (1994) and by Friesen (n.d.).