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- Lab number
- K-6459
- Material dated
- Bone
- Taxa dated
- Rangifer tarandus
- Type of date
- Archaeological
- Locality
- On a small island 15 km south of Sisimiut, Central West Greenland
- Elevation (m ASL)
- 11.66
- Date uploaded
- March 27, 2020
- Normalized Age
- 3010 ± 95
- Significance
- Saqqaq
- Stratigraphic component
- Phase 3, area 1, layer 4c (2K3)
- Context
- Section IV
- Additional information
- Sample comes from southern part of the section where layer 4b disrupts the continuity of layer 4. The date is too young to be from the oldest occupation phase in this area and is interpreted as contamination from a later phase.