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Canada / NU / KdDq-9 (Nanook) / GaK-1284
- 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).