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Canada / NT / LcPc-7 (Windy Point) / GaK-1866
- Lab number
- GaK-1866
- Field number
- CMC- 240
- Material dated
- charred wood; bois carbonisé
- Locality
- on a moss-covered esker jutting out from the east side of the southern shore of Winter Lake, 4.6 m above a high lake level, in the Snare River drainage, Great Slave drainage, Northwest Territories
- Map sheet
- 86 A/07
- Submitter
- W.C. Noble
- Date submitted
- September 23, 0097
- Measured Age
- 1230 ± 180
- Normalized Age
- 1230 ± 180
- δ13C (per mil)
- -25.0
- Significance
- geoarchaeology; géoarchéologie
- Context
- log lying horizontally, Unit C, middle terrace, 15 cm depth
- Comments
- LcPc-7, Windy Point: Cultural materials came from a black sandy humus 5-8 cm thick overlain by 1.5 cm of gray-black moss and underlain by 17 cm of orange-brown B horizon devoid of artifacts. Beneath the B horizon are fine clay gumbo till and boulders. Noble's original age estimate (3000-2500 BP) was based on the presence of Arctic Small-tool points and scrapers as surface finds on the lowest terrace of the esker. Apparently increasing age is not directly correlated with higher terrace elevation at this site. There is no reason to suspect the date on typological or contextual grounds. However, GaK-1866 may date a forest fire that occurred several centuries after the occupation (Noble, 1971: 112).