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Canada / NU / NePe-1 / CAMS-62186
- Lab number
- CAMS-62186
- Field number
- 99-DCA-251
- Material dated
- charcoal; charbon de bois
- Taxa dated
- Picea sp., ?Salix sp. (139 mg, id. by R.J. Mott)
- Locality
- 8.8 km north of Cache Point, Wollaston Peninsula, Victoria Island, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 87 A/10 E
- Submitter
- A.S. Dyke and J.M. Savelle
- Date submitted
- February 26, 2002
- Normalized Age
- 3470 ± 40
- δ13C (per mil)
- -25.0
- Significance
- Palaeoeskimo; Paléoesquimau
- Context
- driftwood from a Palaeoeskimo hearth, 29.5 m asl
- Additional information
- The sample was leached in HCl, giving a moderate initial reaction.
- Comments
- NePe-1 (99-DCA-251): This site is a single Paleoeskimo midpassage measuring 1.6 x 0.5 m, with abundant boiling stones in association, a raised beach at 29.5 m elevation. Charcoal was collected from the hearth at 5 cm depth in open-work gravel.