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Lab number
I-840
Material dated
peat; tourbe
Locality
in McCormick Inlet, 1.8 m asl, Melville Island, Northwest Territories
Map sheet
88 H/16
Submitter
W.E. Taylor, Jr.
Date submitted
September 20, 0097
Measured Age
1740 ± 190
Normalized Age
1705 ± 210
δ13C (per mil)
-27.0
Significance
geoarchaeology; géoarchéologie
Context
below flagstones of house, presumably pre-dating house
Comments
QkPa-1, McCormick Inlet: W.E.S. Henoch, Geographical Branch in Ottawa, collected artifacts from a prehistoric dwelling. The artifacts were identified as Dorset by W.E. Taylor, Jr. The site constituted the northwesternmost occurrence of Dorset yet discovered. The elevation and date suggest that isostatic rebound has been less than 1.8 m during the last 1.5 millennia.

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