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- Lab number
- Beta-14648
- Material dated
- Charcoal
- Taxa dated
- Salix
- Locality
- On the shores of Kipmik Lake, in the Gates of the Arctic National Park. Central Brooks Range, AK.
- Submitter
- Jeff Rasic, NPS
- Uploader
- A. Martindale
- Date uploaded
- March 23, 2015
- Measured Age
- 3655 ± 85
- Significance
- AST (Arctic Small-tool)
- Context
- Test pit 0
- Comments
- Hall originally noted this site, on a flat area, probably an old beach, about 3' above present water level. Twelve square meters were excavated, producing side and end blades, scrapers, burins, biface fragments, spalls, and bone meal. A Denbigh Flint complex affinity was indicated. Kunz relocated the site and performed additional tests. Cultural material recovered included waste flakes, retouched flakes, point fragments, burin spalls, a Denbigh burin fragment, a microblade fragment, a possible burin blank or point fragment, a core tablet, charcoal, fire cracked rock, and burned bone. Three black chert flakes and one obsidian microblade fragment came from Test Pit 0. Numerous pieces of fire-cracked rock and charcoal possibly constituted a hearth. Soil here is shallow, 2-4 cm thick. Cultural material (side and end blades, scrapers, burins, biface fragments, spalls, etc.) came from beach shingle contact 2-4 cm below surface.