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Canada / YT / KhTx-? (Mayo Lake) / S-1328
- Lab number
- S-1328
- Field number
- CMC- 920
- Material dated
- spruce wood; bois d'épinette
- Taxa dated
- Picea sp. (22.45 g, id. by H.S. Bostock)
- Locality
- delta of a small steep creek flowing into Mayo Lake east of Keystone Creek, Yukon drainage, central Yukon Territory
- Map sheet
- 105 M/12
- Submitter
- R.E. Morlan
- Date submitted
- April 28, 0097
- Measured Age
- 165 ± 140
- Normalized Age
- 165 ± 140
- δ13C (per mil)
- -25.0
- Significance
- Recent Athapaskan; Athabascan récent
- Context
- standing adze-cut stump
- Comments
- KhTx-no #, Mayo Lake stump: Most of the delta is now flooded by the Mayo Lake hydro storage dam. The stump is thought to have been cut before the introduction of metal axes. It was situated next to a large sawn stump of known age. Bostock (1979: 126) described their relationship as follows: "The roots of the saw stump spread along the present surface and those of the Indian stump were buried. We photographed them and then dug down to see where the roots of the Indian stump were. They spread out about 15 inches below the present surface. Also the Indian stump stood between the roots of the saw stump thus throughout its life the tree of the saw stump had sheltered the Indian stump from rain and sun. The saw stump had 167 growth rings and was cut down in 1922 for lumber for a saw mill that had been a little way down the outlet of the lake. Thus the Indian stump it would seem was cut down in 1755 or earlier." Of all the native-cut stumps that have come to our attention, this one has the best documentation to support an early date. No Borden number has been assigned, and the stump is catalogued XI-B-368 at the Canadian Museum of Civilization.