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- Lab number
- TO-8541
- Field number
- 99-DCA-217b
- Material dated
- marine shell; coquillage
- Taxa dated
- Mytilus edulis (630 mg, id. by A.S. Dyke)
- Locality
- about 15 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
- 2480 ± 60
- Significance
- Palaeoeskimo; Paléoesquimau
- Context
- beneath stones in a hearth in a Palaeoeskimo dwelling feature, 7.25 m asl
- Additional information
- The sample was given a >30% leach in HCl to remove the outer layers.
- Comments
- NhPk-7 (99-DCA-217): This site is on a raised beach at 7.25 m asl. It includes four or more dwelling features spaced 2-15 m apart. Bone was collected from beneath stones in the hearth area (bird, fish, and caribou or muskox) in a midpassage. The sample also includes a small amount of charcoal? and burnt bone and Mytilus edulis (217b, TO-8541) from the beach gravel.