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Canada / NT / OdPc-16 (00-133) / GSC-6534
- Lab number
- GSC-6534
- Field number
- 00-DCA-133c
- Material dated
- wood; bois
- Taxa dated
- Picea sp. driftwood (id. by R.J. Mott)
- Locality
- 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 26, 2002
- Measured Age
- 980 ± 50
- Normalized Age
- 960 ± 50
- δ13C (per mil)
- -26.27
- Significance
- Neoeskimo, Thule; Néoesquimau, Thuléen
- Context
- apparently part of a largely decomposed post in a Thule sod house, 10-10.5 m asl
- Additional information
- The saturated, partly decomposed wood was washed under tap water to remove peat and dirt, air dried overnight, then oven dried for 4 hours.
- Comments
- OdPc-16 (00-DCA-133): This site has two Thule semi-subterranian houses with sod and boulder walls rising about 30 cm and located near a pond on coarse raised beach gravel. House 1 is 8 m wide, 7 m long excluding a 3 m long entry passage. House 2 is of similar size. A small excavation (50 x 50 cm; 28 cm maximum depth) revealed 10 cm of post-abandonment peat over organic fill with cultural debris in the centre of House 1. Three samples were collected: 133a, a bowhead whale rib fragment with a drilled hole; 133b, mixed bones of ring seal, fish, fox (including a canine tooth), and caribou/muskox; and 133c, driftwood fragments, some burnt, but apparently from a largely decomposed post. These are the only winter houses found by us in three summers of work in this region. Two other apparently similar houses were seen from aircraft east of the mouth of the Kuuk River. The nearest other known Thule winter houses are at the Memorana site near Holman, at the Kuujjua River on Minto Inlet, and at Lady Franklin Point on Dolphin and Union Strait.