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- Lab number
- SI-3889
- Material dated
- charcoal; charbon de bois
- Locality
- on Avayalik Island, 25 km south of the tip of the Labrador Peninsula
- Map sheet
- 25 A/01
- Submitter
- R.H. Jordan
- Date submitted
- August 28, 0097
- Normalized Age
- 2240 ± 80
- Significance
- Palaeoeskimo, Dorset; Paléoesquimau, Dorsétien
- Context
- cache pit associated with Avayalik-2
- Comments
- JaDb-1, Avayalik Island 2: The most obvious feature is a subrectangular boulder outline bisected by an internal central rock feature. The structure might have housed two small family units. SI-3887 is considered satisfactory, but SI-3888 is inexplicably late. A nearby cache pit associated with this site yielded SI-3889, a date somewhat earlier than expected. Another cache pit, not directly attributable to any particular occupation site, yielded SI-3892 on walrus bone. There are at least 25 caches on the slope between Avayalik-1 and Avayalik-2. Five caches south and west of Avayalik-2 were more carefully examined and contained many walrus bones and other species. These are listed here with SI-3892.