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- Lab number
- TO-8535
- Field number
- 99-DCA-179
- Material dated
- charcoal; charbon de bois
- Taxa dated
- (ca. 100 mg)
- Locality
- in the Innirit Hills, about 18.5 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
- 3430 ± 70
- Significance
- Palaeoeskimo; Paléoesquimau
- Context
- hearth in a midpassage feature on a raised beach, 8 m asl
- Additional information
- Very fine grained charcoal, Salix?, given no pretreatment by submitter.
- Comments
- NhPk-1 (99-DCA-179): This single dwelling structure (mid-passage approximately 0.9 x 2.2 m with several chert flakes in association) is situated on a raised beach 8 m above high tide. The site is unvegetated. Charcoal was collected directly below a hearth stone from the surface of medium, open-work gravel.