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- Lab number
- AECV-1653C
- Material dated
- mammal bone collagen; collagène osseux de mammifères
- Taxa dated
- terrestrial mammal
- Locality
- on the south shore of a neck of land that joins a long sand spit to the Tuktoyaktuk Peninsula, at the northeast extremity of McKinley Bay, Arctic coast, Northwest Territories
- Map sheet
- 107 E/03
- Submitter
- C.D. Arnold
- Date submitted
- July 20, 0098
- Normalized Age
- 410 ± 70
- δ13C (per mil)
- -21.2
- Significance
- Neoeskimo, Inuit; Néoesquimau
- Context
- House 1
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Spermophilus parryii, Ondatra zibethicus, Microtus sp, Delphinapterus leucas, Canis familiaris cf., Alopex lagopus, Ursus sp, Gulo gulo, Phoca hispida, Rangifer tarandus; Aves, Gavia sp, Cygnus sp, Branta or Chen, Anas sp, Larus sp, Tetraonidae; Pisces, Salvelinus sp, Coregonus clupeaformis cf., Stenodus leucichthys, Lota lota
- Comments
- OaTi-1, McKinley Bay: Twelve distinct archaeological features include a surface grave and 11 low mounds with interior depressions, most likely the remains of semisubterranean driftwood and sod houses. Excavations into one mound revealed the remains of a dwelling called House 1.