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Lab number
TO-8534
Field number
99-DCA-165b
Material dated
charcoal; charbon de bois
Taxa dated
Picea sp. (driftwood, 92 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
4410 ± 70
Significance
Palaeoeskimo, Predorset?; Paléoesquimau, Prédorsétien
Context
hearth beside a midpassage feature, 12.5-13 m asl
Additional information
The sample was leached in HCl, giving a moderate 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.

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