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Lab number
Beta-35030
Material dated
charcoal; charbon de bois
Locality
on the north shore of Dezadeash Lake just west of the narrows in an area of extensive sand dunes, Alsek drainage, Yukon Territory
Map sheet
115 A/10
Submitter
R.M. Gotthardt
Date submitted
October 15, 0099
Normalized Age
2900 ± 180
Significance
Northern Archaic?; Archaïque du nord?
Context
hearth deposit in an organic lens about 40 cm below White River tephra, with flakes and bone fragments
Comments
JdVf-2: This may be the site referred to in oral histories where Dalton Post people, under their chief, Lan, were massacred by White River people in the early nineteenth century.

References

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