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Lab number
M-1535
Field number
CMC- 23
Material dated
charred animal remains; restes d'animaux carbonisés
Taxa dated
Phocidae fat and skin
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
2410 ± 120
Normalized Age
2430 ± 125
δ13C (per mil)
-23.0
Significance
Palaeoeskimo, Dorset; Paléoesquimau, Dorsétien
Context
square 5R5, fat cementing sand and pieces of seal skin 30 cm below the sod base
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Phoca sp, Erignathus barbatus, Halichoerus grypus, Rangifer tarandus, Alopex lagopus, Lepus arcticus, Canis familiaris; Aves, Gavia immer, Somateria mollissima, Somateria spectabilis, Lagopus lagopus, Lagopus mutus, Calidris maritima, Larus hyperboreus, Larus glaucoides, Larus argentatus, Uria lomvia, Cepphus grylle, Alle alle, Fratercula cirrhata, Corvus corax
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).

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