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Lab number
M-1530
Field number
CMC- 18
Material dated
charred animal remains; restes d'animaux carbonisés
Taxa dated
Phocidae? fat
Locality
Cape Tanfield, 10 m asl, Baffin Island, Nunavut
Map sheet
25 K/12
Submitter
M.S. Maxwell
Date submitted
September 1, 0097
Measured Age
2180 ± 120
Normalized Age
2220 ± 125
δ13C (per mil)
-23.0
Significance
Palaeoeskimo; Paléoesquimau
Stratigraphic component
Area 1
Context
cooking rocks and a lamp sherd, 20 cm or more below sod base
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Phocidae?
Additional information
Re-run: 1790 +/- 120 BP.
Comments
KdDq-8-1, Avinga, Area 1 of KdDq-8: The lowest cultural material is about 40 cm below the sod base, resting directly on water-washed beach sand. Maxwell comments that neither the original date nor the re-run of M-1530 can be considered the age of the major assemblage at this site. In addition to the potential for sampling error and contamination, it has been learned that the lamp sherd, which contributed at least 75% of the carbon, came from a small pocket of late artifacts just beneath the sod where it was separated from the major component by 15 cm of sterile humus. The age difference between carbon from the lamp sherd and that from the cooking rocks is probably as much as 1000 years.

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