CARD fuzzes location data for public visitors to the database. Accessing CARD's full capabilities requires an account available only to researchers at accredited institutions.
Canada / YT / MjVg-1 (Rat Indian) / QU-768
- Lab number
- QU-768
- Field number
- NYRP-78-7
- Material dated
- charcoal; charbon de bois
- Locality
- eastern side of confluence of Rat Indian Creek and Porcupine River, 297 m asl, northern Yukon Territory
- Map sheet
- 116 O/09
- Submitter
- R. Le Blanc
- Date submitted
- April 27, 0097
- Measured Age
- 1510 ± 80
- Normalized Age
- 1510 ± 80
- δ13C (per mil)
- -25.0
- Significance
- Old Chief
- Stratigraphic component
- Level 6A
- Context
- hearth, unit N2/W8, 85-110 cm depth, Level 6A, different part of same feature as WSU-2145
- Comments
- MjVg-1, Rat Indian: This multi-component site contains one historic level and six prehistoric levels, numbered 2, 3, 5, 6, 6A, and 6B. Only Levels 5 and 6/6A produced samples large enough for detailed analysis. Two archaeological phases are proposed: the Old Chief phase, ca. 900 BC - AD 700; and the Klo-kut phase, ca. AD 700 - 1850. Rat Indian Level 6/6A is assigned to the Old Chief phase and Level 5 to the Klo-kut phase. Most of the 18 radiocarbon dates on this site are internally consistent and complement the stratigraphic sequence. However, S-1830, from Level 2, is out of sequence and might have been contaminated through the use of ancient driftwood or by the disturbance of its hearth context by a 1968 test pit. Three dates on Level 3 appear earlier than four dates on the upper part of Level 5, but all of them are shown to be essentially contemporaneous, reflecting the close stratigraphic relationship and small temporal separation between these levels.