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- Lab number
- SI-930
- Material dated
- charcoal; charbon de bois
- Locality
- on the northeast shore of Groswater Bay, 6.7 m asl, Hamilton Inlet, Labrador
- Map sheet
- 13 I/06
- Submitter
- W.W. Fitzhugh
- Date submitted
- June 27, 0097
- Measured Age
- 2720 ± 125
- Normalized Age
- 2720 ± 125
- δ13C (per mil)
- -25.0
- Significance
- Palaeoeskimo, Groswater Dorset; Paléoesquimau, Dorsétien Groswater
- Context
- hearth, scattered beneath small slab rock 16 cm depth
- Additional information
- date may be contaminated by admixture with earlier Maritime Archaic material; Buxhall is a component within Rattlers Bight 1
- Comments
- GcBi-7, Rattlers Bight 1: This large habitation and cemetery site is the type site of the Rattlers Bight complex of the Maritime Archaic tradition. GSC-1260 and GSC-1379 suggest that occupation began soon after the emergence of the site from the sea.