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- Lab number
- AA-40590
- Field number
- 00-DCA-185
- Material dated
- charcoal; charbon de bois
- Taxa dated
- Picea sp. (94 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
- 4455 ± 52
- δ13C (per mil)
- -24.7
- Significance
- Palaeoeskimo; Paléoesquimau
- Context
- box hearth in the mispassage of a tent ring, 15.5 m asl
- Additional information
- The sample was leached in HCl, giving a moderate initial reaction.
- Comments
- OePe-36 (00-DCA-185): This site contains 45 Palaeoeskimo dwelling features on four very coarse gravel beach levels between 15.5 and 16.5 m elevation. One feature is located at 16.5 m, 9 features at 16 m, 15 features at 15.5-16 m, and 20 features at 15.5 m. The rows of features are on adjacent relict beach strands. Charcoal was collected from a box hearth (45 x 40 cm) with boiling stones in a midpassage (3.25 x 0.45 m) within a roughly rectangular flagstone tent ring (3.25 x 4.5 m). This dwelling is roughly in the middle of the lowest row of features, which extends for about 200 m along strand.