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- Lab number
- AA-40588
- Field number
- 00-DCA-176a
- Material dated
- charcoal; charbon de bois
- Taxa dated
- Salix sp. (8 mg, id. by R.J. Mott)
- Locality
- west side of Page Point, north-central shore of Prince Albert Sound, Victoria Island, Northwest Territories
- Map sheet
- 87 E/10
- Submitter
- A.S. Dyke and J.M. Savelle
- Date submitted
- February 25, 2002
- Normalized Age
- 3582 ± 43
- δ13C (per mil)
- -27.0
- Significance
- Palaeoeskimo; Paléoesquimau
- Context
- inconspicuous hearth in a midpassage in a tent ring, 0-5 cm depth, 16.5 m asl
- Additional information
- The sample was leached in HCl, giving a weak initial reaction.
- Comments
- OePe-32 (00-DCA-176): This site contains a total of 6 Palaeoeskimo features in 3 groups of 2, each on a separate raised beach level between 12.5 and 16.5 m elevation. Two charcoal samples were collected: 176a (AA-40588), from 0-5 cm depth in an inconspicuous hearth in a midpassage in a tent ring on medium gravel (midpassage 3.1 x 0.9 m; ring 3.1 x 3.0 m) at 16.5 m elevation; 176b (AA-41514), from the northernmost of two isolated box hearths (46 x 53 cm) located about 100 m southeast of the first sample at 14 m elevation.