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- Lab number
- AA-40849
- Field number
- 00-DCA-028
- Material dated
- charcoal; charbon de bois
- Taxa dated
- Picea sp. (114 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
- 3826 ± 41
- δ13C (per mil)
- -23.9
- Significance
- Palaeoeskimo; Paléoesquimau
- Context
- one of six isolated hearths at the east end of the site, 11.75 m asl
- Additional information
- The sample was leached in HCl, giving a weak initial reaction.
- Comments
- ObPj-3 (00-DCA-028): Sixteen Palaeoeskimo features are situated on gravel raised beaches at this site, two groups of 6 and 8 features at 11.75 m elevation and another group of 2 features at 12.75 m. Three grains of charcoal were collected from a hearth at the east end of the site, one of a group of 6 isolated hearths. The sampled hearth is 95 x 83 cm, outside dimension.