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Canada / NU / NhPl-11 / CAMS-65201
- Lab number
- CAMS-65201
- Field number
- 99-DCA-210d
- Material dated
- charcoal; charbon de bois
- Taxa dated
- Picea sp. or Salix sp. (140 mg, id. by R.J. Mott)
- Locality
- about 10.5 km east of Point Caen, Wollaston Peninsula, Victoria Island, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 87 D/05
- Submitter
- A.S. Dyke and J.M. Savelle
- Date submitted
- February 26, 2002
- Normalized Age
- 870 ± 40
- δ13C (per mil)
- -25.0
- Significance
- Neoeskimo, Thule; Néoesquimau, Thuléen
- Context
- driftwood from a Thule hearth, 2 m asl
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Phoca hispida
- Additional information
- The single piece of charcoal lacked any sign of contamination
- Comments
- NhPl-11 (99-DCA-210): This site is on a raised beach at 3-4 m asl. The site consists of the following: two isolated hearths spaced about 5 m apart, with a bone cleat in association on the 5th beach ridge at 2 m elevation; two tent rings with external hearths 10 m apart on the 7th beach ridge at 3 m elevation; one gravel-rimmed tent ring, one windbreak, one kayak/sled rest and two boulder caches 10 m inland on the 8th beach ridge at 4 m elevation; one large rectangular feature with paved floor on the 13th beach ridge (5-6 m elevation); three indistinct scattered tent rings(?) on the 16th beach ridge (5.5-6.5 m). Note that beach ridges 8-13 were designated as site 211 in the field, but it is more appropriate to consider them as belonging to site 210. Four samples were collected: 210a, driftwood apparently associated with the boulder support structure (positioned on outside of the boulders, embedded in beach gravel with same curvature at the boulder perimeter); 210b, a long slender piece of driftwood (40 x 2 x 1 cm) from inside the probable windbreak; 210c, ring seal bone (mandible and phalange) from the external hearth. On beach ridge 4 (estimated 2 m aht) are two isolated hearths, probably historic or late prehistoric, with a bone cleat artifact on the surface. Burnt wood (sample 210d) occurs in both hearths, which are about 5 m apart and have the same orientation (same wind direction). There is no evidence of European trade goods at this site.