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- Lab number
- SI-3997
- Material dated
- willow wood; bois de saule
- Taxa dated
- Salix sp.
- 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
- 1520 ± 60
- Significance
- Palaeoeskimo, middle Dorset; Paléoesquimau, Dorsétien moyen
- Context
- Middle Dorset midden, twigs in black humified peat 60 cm thick
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Odobenus rosmarus, Phoca hispida, Phoca groenlandica, Phoca vitulina, Erignathus barbatus, Vulpes vulpes, Ursus maritimus, Rangifer tarandus, Monodon monoceros, Canis sp; Aves; Flora: Salix sp
- 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.
