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Canada / NU / KdDq-9 (Nanook) / GaK-1493
- Lab number
- GaK-1493
- Field number
- CMC- 132
- Material dated
- charred animal remains; restes d'animaux carbonisés
- Taxa dated
- Phocidae? fat
- Locality
- on the west side of the Tanfield Valley, 11.9 m asl, southern Baffin Island, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 25 K/12
- Submitter
- M.S. Maxwell
- Date submitted
- September 20, 0097
- Measured Age
- 2010 ± 80
- Normalized Age
- 2030 ± 85
- δ13C (per mil)
- -23.0
- Significance
- Palaeoeskimo, Dorset; Paléoesquimau, Dorsétien
- Context
- square OL15/5L15, 25 cm depth, in permafrost, scraped from encrusted cooking rock
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Phocidae?
- Comments
- KdDq-9, Nanook: Maxwell (1985: 156) notes that this site is very difficult to interpret but "may best be seen as a sort of communal late-winter to early-spring dwelling." ... "Eleven carbon dates are available for the site. The earliest, 420 B.C. (on willow twigs), is probably accurate but may well date the natural growth of the site prior to human occupation. In various assessments of the remaining dates, Arundale concludes that settlement began sometime between 420 and 270 B.C. and lasted until A.D. 123" (Maxwell, 1985: 201).