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- Lab number
- Beta-70916
- Field number
- 1993-01-01
- Material dated
- willow and crowberry charcoal; charbon de saule et de camarine
- Taxa dated
- Salix sp. and Empetrum nigrum (1.8 g, id. by D. Laeyendecker)
- Locality
- Frobisher Bay, Baffin Island, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 25 I/14
- Submitter
- W.W. Fitzhugh
- Date submitted
- September 4, 0098
- Normalized Age
- 1500 ± 90
- Significance
- Palaeoeskimo, Dorset; Paléoesquimau, Dorsétien
- Context
- test pit 3 area, 64N/8E, upper level, midden, 10 cm depth, level 3A
- Additional information
- small sample (0.4 g) given extended counting time.
- Comments
- KeDe-14, Willows Island 4: Odess distinguishes two groups of Dorset components at this site. Sequence I is defined from lithic and organic artifacts and ranges from 2100 BP to 1700 BP. Sequence II, with lithic and wooden artifacts but no harpoon heads, dates between 1500 and 1400 BP.