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Canada / NU / MkPk-6 (Sandwillow) / S-465
- Lab number
- S-465
- Field number
- CMC- 301
- Material dated
- caribou bone collagen; collagène osseux de caribou
- Taxa dated
- Rangifer tarandus
- Locality
- in a large sand blowout on the edge of an 85 m terrace, 400 m west of Coppermine River, 1.5 km north-northwest of Bloody Falls, Northwest Territories
- Map sheet
- 86 O/14
- Submitter
- R. McGhee
- Date submitted
- August 26, 0097
- Measured Age
- 1790 ± 70
- Normalized Age
- 1870 ± 75
- δ13C (per mil)
- -20.0
- Significance
- Early Taltheilei; Taltheilei ancien
- Context
- surface of blowout, including all organic material found at the site
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Rangifer tarandus
- Comments
- MkPk-6, Sandwillow: This is apparently a single component caribou hunters' camp. The small sample of stone tools included five lanceolate stemmed points, a type found in several northern Canadian locations but not previously in datable context.