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Lab number
GaK-1284
Field number
CMC- 128
Material dated
animal remains; restes d'animaux
Taxa dated
Rangifer tarandus and Phocidae hide
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
2380 ± 80
Normalized Age
2460 ± 80
δ13C (per mil)
-20.0
Significance
Palaeoeskimo, Dorset; Paléoesquimau, Dorsétien
Context
skin and other organic material, square OL15, 30 cm depth, in permafrost
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Rangifer tarandus, Phocidae
Additional information
The normalized age is a minimum, because materials of marine origin were included.
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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