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- Lab number
- Beta-70918
- Field number
- 1993-10-01
- Material dated
- willow and crowberry wood; bois de saule et de camarine
- Taxa dated
- Salix sp. and Empetrum nigrum twigs (36 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
- 1970 ± 70
- Significance
- Palaeoeskimo, Dorset; Paléoesquimau, Dorsétien
- Context
- test pit 3 area, 64N/8E, midden, 40 cm depth, level 3E
- 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.