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Lab number
W-1123
Material dated
wood; bois
Locality
bluff rising 30 m above the Aishihik River, west of Canyon Creek Roadhouse at Mile 998, Alaska Highway, Alsek drainage, southwest Yukon Territory
Map sheet
115 A/14
Submitter
R.S. MacNeish
Date submitted
June 18, 0097
Normalized Age
3470 ± 300
Significance
Taye Lake
Stratigraphic component
Level 7
Context
hearth, square 8, Level 7, 51" depth, in sand
Associated taxa
Mammalia: small Carnivora (Vulpes sp?)
Comments
JfVg-1, Canyon: This is a deep, stratified site. MacNeish (1964: 308) characterized W-1123 as a "large log with hair-like roots on its exterior," possibly a root, and noted that it was slightly out of sequence with W-1122 on Level 3.

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