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Canada / NU / KdDq-10 (Loon) / P-710
- Lab number
- P-710
- Material dated
- charred animal remains; restes d'animaux carbonisés
- Taxa dated
- Phocidae? fat
- Locality
- Cape Tanfield, 15 m asl, on the south coast of Baffin Island, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 25 K/12
- Submitter
- M.S. Maxwell
- Date submitted
- September 20, 0097
- Measured Age
- 3577 ± 69
- Normalized Age
- 3597 ± 78
- δ13C (per mil)
- -23.0
- Significance
- Palaeoeskimo, Predorset; Paléoesquimau; Prédorsétien
- Context
- cinder-like material of fat and sand from upper limit of permafrost
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Phocidae?
- Comments
- KdDq-10, Loon: Elevation and Pre-Dorset typology suggest an age of about 1200 to 1000 BC. The artifacts compare favourably with Igloolik materials from the Kaleruserk and Kapuivik sites.