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Canada / NL / GbBn-7 (Ticoralak 5) / GSC-1314
- Lab number
- GSC-1314
- Material dated
- charcoal; charbon de bois
- Locality
- on the west end of Ticoralak Island, 7.3 m asl, Groswater Bay, Hamilton Inlet, Labrador
- Map sheet
- 13 J/08
- Submitter
- W.W. Fitzhugh
- Date submitted
- June 27, 0097
- Measured Age
- 2400 ± 160
- Normalized Age
- 2400 ± 160
- δ13C (per mil)
- -25.0
- Significance
- Palaeoeskimo, Groswater Dorset; Paléoesquimau, Dorsétien Groswater
- Context
- hearth in a shallow cultural zone, 2.5-7.5 cm depth
- Comments
- GbBn-7, Ticoralak 5: During the occupation of this site, shoreline was probably between 6.0-6.7 m above present sea level, as judged by local topography and site position. Fitzhugh comments that Ticoralak-5 is at the lowest altitude of any Dorset site found in the Hamilton Inlet region, and its age was earlier than anticipated. However, in light of other dates received for the local Groswater Dorset sites, this determination is not anomalous. The cultural assemblage found with GSC-1314 includes most features of other sites of this local Dorset variant. Of all sites dated at Ticoralak, this one allows the most accurate estimate of shoreline position at the time of occupation.