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Canada / NU / NePe-8 / CAMS-65202
- Lab number
- CAMS-65202
- Field number
- 99-DCA-265
- Material dated
- charcoal; charbon de bois
- Taxa dated
- Picea sp. (driftwood, 290 mg, id. by R.J. Mott)
- Locality
- 4.6 km north-northeast of Cache Point, Wollaston Peninsula, Victoria Island, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 87 A/10 E
- Submitter
- A.S. Dyke and J.M. Savelle
- Date submitted
- February 26, 2002
- Normalized Age
- 1650 ± 60
- δ13C (per mil)
- -25.0
- Significance
- Palaeoeskimo or Neoeskimo; Paléoesquimau ou Néoesquimau
- Context
- hearth on the exterior side of the western boulder line, near the middle of the line, 8 m asl
- Additional information
- The sample was leached in HCl, giving a strong initial reaction.
- Comments
- NePe-8 (99-DCA-265): This site has two parallel alignments of boulders, one 2.2 m long, the other 2.4 m long, spaced 2 m apart. Charcoal was collected from a hearth on the exterior side of the western boulder line, near the middle of the line. Caribou/muskox bone fragments are present on the surface.