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- Lab number
- AA-41518
- Field number
- 00-DCAw-183-2
- Material dated
- charcoal; charbon de bois
- Taxa dated
- Salix sp. (12 mg, id. by R.J. Mott)
- Locality
- about 10.5 km east of Point Caen, Wollaston Peninsula, Victoria Island, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 87 D/05
- Submitter
- A.S. Dyke and J.M. Savelle
- Date submitted
- February 26, 2002
- Normalized Age
- 4172 ± 58
- δ13C (per mil)
- -25.0
- Significance
- Palaeoeskimo, Predorset; Paléoesqumau, Prédorsétien
- Context
- Palaeoeskimo midpassage, 12.5 m asl
- Additional information
- The sample was leached in HCl, giving no visible reaction.
- Comments
- NhPl-2 (99-DCA-183): This site is on a raised beach at 12.5 m asl. It contains 20+ dwelling features - mostly midpassages. Six samples were collected from this site: 183a, a ring seal phalange from the lower part of the turf cover in the central part of a midpassage; 183b, one vertebra fragment and three rib fragments of ring seal from beneath a boulder at the side of a midpassage, next feature east of 183a; 183c, ring seal bone from beneath stones of midpassage, same feature as 183b; 183d, fox and ring seal bones, burnt and unburnt, from a scattered hearth about 10 m southwest of 183c, on same beach level (fox bones include a mandible with teeth); 183e, seal and caribou or muskox bones from a large tent ring 25 m west of 183c (ring is 4.5 m diameter; one of few well defined rings at Paleoeskimo sites; lots of chert flakes; bone of 183e is of poor quality); 183f, bird and seal bones from beneath stones of the most easterly of three tent rings of possible Thule age at west end of Paleoeskimo site. The site was excavated by Peter Whitridge in August 2000 and three additional radiocarbon samples were collected, of which one (AA-41518) has been dated.