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Lab number
K-3514
Material dated
Bone
Taxa dated
Rangifer tarandus
Type of date
Archaeological
Locality
In the centre of Greenland's largest ice-free continuous land, about 20 km NNW of Sondrestromfjord Air Base, central-south western Greenland
Date uploaded
March 27, 2020
Normalized Age
950 ± 70
Significance
Paleoeskimo? Thule?
Context
North-west corner of "hunters' bed" structure G1, at same level as the base of its stone wall
Comments
Aasivissuit is interpreted as a major Caribou hunting site. It is uncertain whether date from hunter's bed is associated with paleoeskimo or neoeskimo. Date corresponds to early neo-eskimo occupation phases, but no traces of these earliest neo-eskimo hunters have been found in the midden layers at Aasivissuit.

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