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- Lab number
- Beta-241486
- Material dated
- charcoal
- Taxa dated
- Salix sp.
- Type of date
- archaeological
- Submitter
- Jeff Rasic, NPS
- Uploader
- A. Martindale
- Date uploaded
- March 23, 2015
- Measured Age
- 1190
- Normalized Age
- 1190 ± 40
- Context
- South house at Avingak. Sample was collected by R. Reanier in 1985 during a very brief visit of the site.
- Comments
- Site is outside of the park. The site is situated near the southeast corner of Tulugak Lake. It consists of several semi-subterranean house pits, two of which were excavated by Campbell in 1961. The houses were square and had semi-subterranean entrance tunnels, and large centrally located, stone line hearths. The artifacts recovered included side and end blades, microblades, and scrapers. A radiocarbon date of about 1500 BP suggests a Norton-Ipiutak occupation. The presence of microblades is thought to possibly represent an earlier occupation. The charcoal is a broken fragment. The growth ring boundaries are not discernible. It is a diffuse-porous wood with uniseriate and heterecellular rays. Vessels have simple perforation plates. Both the intervessel pits and the ray-vessel pitting are typical of the salicaceae family. ID Claire Alix, Feb 13, 2008.