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Canada / NU / KdDq-8-1 (Avinga) / M-1530
- 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.