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- Lab number
- SI-3864
- Material dated
- conifer wood; bois de conifère
- Locality
- on a grass and sedge terrace just below Avayalik 2, 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
- 670 ± 60
- Significance
- Palaeoeskimo, late Dorset; Paléoesquimau, Dorsétien supérieur
- Context
- roof timber from a Late Dorset house
- Additional information
- Nagle (1984: 236) mentions that nine dates have been run on different materials, and he presents only the Middle Dorset wood and charcoal dates.
- Comments
- JaDb-10, Avayalik Island 1: The site encompasses about 1200 sq m of rich Middle Dorset midden deposit and house depressions, which are probably associated with both Middle and Late Dorset occupations. SI-3864 conforms well with other Late Dorset sites in northern Labrador dated to the 13th century. The other dates are satisfactory for the Middle Dorset occupation of this site.
