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Lab number
SI-929
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
4525 ± 155
Normalized Age
4525 ± 155
δ13C (per mil)
-25.0
Significance
Maritime Archaic; Archaïque maritime
Context
Sq. 62N36E, hearth 2, 28 cm depth, under large slab cooking rock
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.

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