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Canada / YT / NcVi-3 (Dog Creek) / TO-7538
- Lab number
- TO-7538
- Field number
- AMS, 98-6
- Material dated
- wood; bois
- Taxa dated
- (788 mg)
- 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 20, 2001
- Normalized Age
- 2040 ± 50
- Significance
- geoarchaeology; géoarchéologie
- Context
- unit 2, N0/E8, 85-90 cm depth
- 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.