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Lab number
GSC-2152
Field number
CMC- 791
Material dated
willow charcoal; charbon de saule
Taxa dated
Salix sp. (id. by R.J. Mott)
Locality
on the east bank of Dubawnt River at outlet of Grant Lake, 200 m asl, Nunavut
Map sheet
65 N/09
Submitter
B.C. Gordon
Date submitted
September 1, 0097
Measured Age
5480 ± 120
Normalized Age
5480 ± 120
δ13C (per mil)
-25.0
Significance
geoarchaeology; géoarchéologie
Stratigraphic component
Level 5
Context
sand, 8N/4E, Level 5, lowest level in southwest trench
Comments
KkLn-4, Migod: The site, with nine levels and sublevels, contains evidence of late Palaeoindian, Shield Archaic, Palaeoeskimo, Taltheilei, and Late Prehistoric Chipewyan occupations. GSC-2152 provides an estimate of the final melting of the Keewatin Ice Divide.

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