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- Lab number
- AA-40573
- Field number
- 00-DCA-007e
- Material dated
- charcoal; charbon de bois
- Taxa dated
- Salix sp. (57 mg, id. by R.J. Mott)
- Locality
- north-central coast of Wollaston Peninsula, Victoria Island, Northwest Territories
- Map sheet
- 87 E/5
- Submitter
- A.S. Dyke and J.M. Savelle
- Date submitted
- February 25, 2002
- Normalized Age
- 2090 ± 49
- δ13C (per mil)
- -27.1
- Significance
- Palaeoeskimo; Paléoesquimau
- Context
- beneath a flagstone in the midpassage of a tent ring, feature 3, 9.5-10 m asl
- Additional information
- The sample was leached in HCl, giving a strong initial reaction.
- Comments
- ObPk-3 (00-DCA-007): A Palaeoeskimo midpassage is situated on a raised beach of coarse gravel about 100 m east of a stream cut through the beaches. The midpassage is 3.43 m long and 1.1 m wide. Several fractured boiling stones occupy the centre of the midpassage, marking the probable hearth area. Charcoal was collected from the hearth area directly below a flagstone. Bird, ring seal, and fish bones were collected from the same area (7b). Three midpassages occur on the 13 m level at this site near the stream bank and an additional midpassage occurs on the same strand 500 m to the east. Sample 7a came from the westernmost feature. Five more Paleoeskimo dwellings are located on the 9.5-10 m level in groups of 3, 1, and 1. Seal bones were collected from beneath flagstones in feature 2 of this site, a 4.4 m wide tent ring with a midpassage measuring 3.52 x 1.52 m (7d). A complete chert projectile point on the surface at this feature was photographed. Charcoal sample 7e (AA-40573) was collected from beneath a flagstone in a midpassage (5 x 0.7 m) in feature 3 of this site, a 4.67 m wide tent ring which is on the same beach ridge as feature 2 and 50 m west of it and 30 m from the stream bluff. Another midpassage occurs 4 m from the stream bluff at this level. A fish leister (spear handle; identified by J.M. Savelle) measuring 330 x 5 x 2.5 cm, 10 m downslope from feature 2, rests on the surface of gravel high on the bank of a distributary channel from the adjacent stream. This channel is probably used during early spring melt. A small piece of wood was taken from the end of the leister for dating (sample 7c).