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- Lab number
- AA-40861
- Field number
- 00-DCA-146c
- Material dated
- charcoal; charbon de bois
- Taxa dated
- Salix sp. (12 mg, id. by R.J. Mott)
- Locality
- west of Woodward Point, northeast shore of Prince Albert Sound, Victoria Island, Northwest Territories
- Map sheet
- 87 E/9
- Submitter
- A.S. Dyke and J.M. Savelle
- Date submitted
- February 25, 2002
- Normalized Age
- 3970 ± 42
- δ13C (per mil)
- -27.4
- Significance
- Palaeoeskimo; Paléoesquimau
- Context
- hearth with more than 20 boiling stones in a stone scatter at the east end of the site, 15 m asl
- Additional information
- 1 grain of Salix charcoal, the remainder conifer. The sample gave no visible reaction to HCl.
- Comments
- OdPc-28 (00-DCA-146): A Palaeoeskimo site with 11 dwelling features, in groups of 7, 2, and 2 features, occurs on very coarse beach gravel at 15 m elevation about 75 m seaward of a 2-m high bedrock scarp. Three samples were collected: 146a, charcoal [AA-40585] and 146b, burnt bone from a box hearth (44 x 45 cm, outside) in a scattered midpassage (2.6 x 2.2 m), the seventh feature from the west end of the site; and 146c (AA-40861), charcoal from a hearth (58 x 70 cm) with >20 boiling stones in a stone scatter (3.2 x 2.55 m), the second feature from the east end of the site.