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Lab number
RIDDL-344
Material dated
caribou bone collagen; collagène osseux de caribou
Taxa dated
Rangifer tarandus antler
Locality
on the east bank of East Channel, Mackenzie River, where the river flows into Kittigazuit Bay, Arctic coast, Northwest Territories
Map sheet
107 C/07
Submitter
D.A. Morrison
Date submitted
August 26, 0097
Normalized Age
490 ± 170
δ13C (per mil)
-20.0
Significance
Neoeskimo; Néoesquimau
Stratigraphic component
M-5
Context
Main trench, Layer 5 (M-5), bird dart side prong, NiTr-2: 1543
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Rangifer tarandus
Additional information
AMS date.
Comments
NiTr-2, Kittigazuit: The site records occupations by Mackenzie Inuit beluga hunters between roughly AD 1400-1900. S-612 and S-613 are reasonable dates for late prehistoric Mackenzie Inuit, but the earlier age for S-614 suggested to McGhee (1974) that the basal level of the site might bear some relation to the Norton tradition rather than to the Thule tradition. RIDDL-344, from the same layer (M-5), prompted the following comment from D.A. Morrison: the specimen [a caribou antler bird dart side prong, NiTr-2: 1543] is illustrated by McGhee (1974: Pl. 22,i) as coming from his enigmatic "Norton" basal level at Kittigazuit... One other date from this level was derived from a mixed sample which included some sea mammal material, and was almost 400 years older (S-614). I find [RIDDL-344] more convincing since it is unmixed and derived solely from terrestrial material. It tends to undermine McGhee's suggestion of a Norton cultural affiliation for this level and is in fact a very acceptable date for the first Mackenzie Inuit occupation of Kittagazuit." The Chalk River AMS lab dated a mammoth tusk found on the beach in front of the site. A chipped stone tool was found nearby on the tidal flats, but the two objects are not necessarily related to one another.

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