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Lab number
GSC-794
Field number
CMC- 135
Material dated
wood; bois
Locality
Cape Tanfield, 9.5 m asl, Baffin Island, Nunavut
Map sheet
25 K/12
Submitter
M.S. Maxwell
Date submitted
September 2, 0097
Measured Age
2040 ± 130
Normalized Age
2040 ± 130
δ13C (per mil)
-25.0
Significance
Palaeoeskimo, Dorset; Paléoesquimau, Dorsétien
Stratigraphic component
Area 2
Context
square 5L15, 38 cm depth, in permafrost
Additional information
Predominantly driftwood, should provide maximum limit on age.
Comments
KdDq-8-2, Kemp, area 2 of KdDq-8: This is a very rich stratified midden, 35-40 cm thick. Maxwell (1985: 200) comments: "The carbon dates from the site are of only limited usefulness. Driftwood from about the middle of the fourth level dating 90 B.C. (GSC-794) indicates little. A corrected charred fat date ... (M-1534) from 20 cm beneath the surface seems a reasonable date for the latest settlement. Based primarily on the recovered harpoon heads, I would suggest that the site was occupied sporadically by two or at the most three families in very cold winters for as many as five centuries, between 300 B.C. and A.D. 200."

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