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- Lab number
- TO-8533
- Field number
- 99-DCA-165a
- Material dated
- charcoal; charbon de bois
- Taxa dated
- Picea sp. (driftwood, 63 mg, id. by R.J. Mott)
- Locality
- about 9 km northwest of Point Caen, Wollaston Peninsula, Victoria Island, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 87 C/08
- Submitter
- A.S. Dyke and J.M. Savelle
- Date submitted
- February 26, 2002
- Normalized Age
- 3950 ± 70
- Significance
- Palaeoeskimo, Predorset?; Paléoesquimau, Prédorsétien
- Context
- two hearths in a midpassage feature, 12.5-13 m asl
- Additional information
- The sample was leached in HCl, giving a weak initial reaction.
- Comments
- NiPm-2 (99-DCA-165): This site is on a raised beach. It contains at least 15 midpassage features with abundant worked chert debitage, both typical of Palaeoeskimo dwellings and several isolated hearths along approximately 250-300 m on one beach ridge. Three radiocarbon samples were collected: 165a (TO-8537), charcoal from 2 hearths in one midpassage; 165b (TO-8534), charcoal from an external hearth beside a midpassage feature; and 165c, ring seal (Phoca hispida) bones from an isolated box-shaped hearth or cache with vertical side stones, 0.60 x 0.60 cm. The highest elevation midpassages are a few metres higher than the sampled features. Eight more midpassages occur immediately to the west at the same general level.