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Lab number
Beta-142066
Material dated
caribou bone collagen; collagène osseux de caribou
Taxa dated
Rangifer tarandus sesamoid
Locality
Bird Cove, Newfoundland
Map sheet
12 P/02
Submitter
M. Murray
Date submitted
August 2, 2000
Measured Age
2120 ± 40
Normalized Age
2280 ± 40
δ13C (per mil)
-15.3
Significance
Palaeoeskimo, Groswater Dorset; Paléoesquimau, Dorsétien groswater
Context
unit N19/E27, northeast quadrant, level 3b
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Rangifer tarandus
Additional information
AMS date
Comments
EgBf-6, Peat Garden North: This Groswater Dorset site was excavated by Helen Evans as part of the Bird Cove Archaeology Project. Two bones were submitted for radiocarbon dates during the course of a faunal analysis conducted by Maribeth Murray.

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