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- Lab number
- GSC-1051
- Material dated
- charred animal remains; restes d'animaux carbonisés
- Taxa dated
- Phocidae? fat
- Locality
- Cape Tanfield, 18 m asl, south coast of Baffin Island, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 25 K/12
- Submitter
- A.A. Dekin
- Date submitted
- September 2, 0097
- Measured Age
- 3420 ± 210
- Normalized Age
- 3390 ± 210
- δ13C (per mil)
- -26.8
- Significance
- Palaeoeskimo, Predorset; Paléoesquimau; Prédorsétien
- Context
- consolidated, squares 2 and 11, 6-13 cm depth, thin midden in gravel
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Phocidae?
- Comments
- KdDq-23, Closure Annex: This is a thin early Pre-Dorset midden in a gravel matrix within the active layer. Dekin considered GSC-1051 to be too young for the associated artifacts.