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Lab number
S-1835
Field number
CMC-1127
Material dated
charcoal; charbon de bois
Taxa dated
(7.9 g)
Locality
on a prominent bedrock ridge, right bank of Black Fox Creek, 457 m asl, 3.5 km downstream from the mouth of Dog Creek, northern edge of Old Crow Basin, Porcupine drainage, northern Yukon Territory
Map sheet
117 A/06
Submitter
J. Cinq-Mars
Date submitted
April 27, 0097
Measured Age
1750 ± 70
Normalized Age
1750 ± 70
δ13C (per mil)
-25.0
Significance
culture?
Context
composite sample from a nearly deflated hearth, southern part of Midridge
Comments
NcVi-3, Dog Creek: The site consists of a series of surficial and buried cultural deposits on several knolls. Recovered lithic material is representative of various cultural complexes spanning a lengthy period, possibly late Pleistocene to mid- or recent Holocene. Cultural affiliation of the most prominent assemblage, characterized by burin and bifacial technology, is uncertain. A detailed geoarchaeological analysis revealed that the artifacts were buried by solifluction and disturbed by frost heave and cryoturbation. Solifluction took place about 5200-2000 years ago when the site was covered by spruce forest. Thereafter, the spruce treeline began to move southward toward its present position.

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