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Canada / NL / IdCr-2 (Ikkusik) / I-5254
- Lab number
- I-5254
- Material dated
- willow wood; bois de saule
- Taxa dated
- Salix sp.
- Locality
- on the southeastern tip of Rose Island, Saglek Bay, northern coast of Labrador
- Map sheet
- 14 L/10
- Submitter
- J.A. Tuck
- Date submitted
- July 7, 0097
- Measured Age
- 275 ± 90
- Normalized Age
- 275 ± 90
- δ13C (per mil)
- -25.0
- Significance
- Neoeskimo, Modified Thule; Néoesquimau, Thuléen
- Stratigraphic component
- Band 4A
- Context
- floor of House 21, a sod house
- Additional information
- Tuck suggests a calibration to about AD 1520 would make the date close to the first penetration of Thule along the Labrador coast
- Comments
- IdCr-2, Ikkusik: There are 20 distinct houses and the remains of a number of disturbed structures. Six of the semisubterranean structures date to the Thule period (Structures 15, 16, 19, 21, 22, and 23), and there are remains of large 18th and early 19th century semisubterranean structures with multiple sleeping platforms and lamp stands.