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Canada / NL / IdCr-4 (Rose Island E) / I-5252
- Lab number
- I-5252
- Material dated
- charcoal; charbon de bois
- Locality
- on the east shore of Rose Island, Saglek Bay, 4.2 m asl, northern coast of Labrador
- Map sheet
- 14 L/10
- Submitter
- J.A. Tuck
- Date submitted
- July 7, 0097
- Measured Age
- 2715 ± 130
- Normalized Age
- 2715 ± 130
- δ13C (per mil)
- -25.0
- Significance
- culture?
- Context
- concentration in Stratum 2
- Additional information
- Tuck gives an incorrect designation, IdCv-4.
- Comments
- IdCr-4, Rose Island Site E: From the outset, Tuck considered I-5252 somewhat late for the pre-Dorset assemblage in Stratum 2. In his final analysis (Tuck, 1975: 39), he explains: "The early Palaeo-Eskimo components were probably deposited between 3800 and 3500 years ago, despite ... I-5252 which we originally thought pertained to this occupation. It was obtained on wood charcoal from a small concentration immediately below the junction between Strata 1 and 2 in the northern locus of excavations. It was impossible at the time to determine whether the feature itself pertained to Stratum 1 or Stratum 2 but the presence of flakes of grey chert, the predominant early Palaeo-Eskimo raw material, suggested that the charcoal might date that occupation. However, the date obtained seems about a millennium too recent, hence I suspect contamination of one sort or another possibly from the overlying Dorset occupation." See also Tuck (1976: 92).