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Canada / NT / NhTn-1 (Gutchiak) / S-3438
- Lab number
- S-3438
- Field number
- CMC-1413
- Material dated
- caribou bone collagen; collagène osseux de caribou
- Taxa dated
- Rangifer tarandus
- Locality
- at the Eskimo Lake narrows, 2 m asl, Northwest Territories
- Map sheet
- 107 C/01
- Submitter
- D.A. Morrison
- Date submitted
- August 9, 0097
- Measured Age
- 0
- Normalized Age
- 0
- δ13C (per mil)
- -20.0
- Significance
- Neoeskimo, Mackenzie Inuit, anomalous, young; Néoesquimau; anormal, jeune
- Context
- N4/W2, Level 4, 50-60 cm depth, with pole structure at base of excavation
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Rangifer tarandus (see also S-3437)
- Comments
- NhTn-1, Gutchiak: This is a late prehistoric Inuvialuit site. Morrison notes that the modern dates cannot possibly represent the age of the site and must reflect either lab error or unidentified contamination. All three dates, from different depths in the site, are equally affected.