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- Lab number
- GSC-1260
- 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
- July 1, 0097
- Measured Age
- 3830 ± 140
- Normalized Age
- 3850 ± 140
- δ13C (per mil)
- -24.1
- Significance
- Maritime Archaic; Archaïque maritime
- Context
- Sq. 0N/35W, in hearth 8-18 cm depth, with burned food bones and red ochre
- 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.