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- Lab number
- Beta-61069
- Field number
- 1992-21
- Material dated
- animal remains; restes d'animaux
- Taxa dated
- sea mammal fat
- Locality
- northeast of Newell Sound 1, just inside the entrance of Newell Sound, on the south side, Baffin Island, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 25 O/04
- Submitter
- W.W. Fitzhugh
- Date submitted
- September 4, 0098
- Normalized Age
- 1130 ± 50
- Significance
- Palaeoeskimo, Dorset; Paléoesquimau, Dorsétien
- Stratigraphic component
- House 1
- Context
- hearth stone in house 1
- Additional information
- It is assumed that this date is corrected for isotopic fractionation.
- Comments
- KgDl-4, Newell Sound 4: Fitzhugh applies a marine reservoir correction of 350 years to Beta-61069, yielding a date of 780 +/- 50 BP, in close agreement with Beta-61068. Odess uses a correction of 430 years, yielding a date of 700 ± 50 BP for Beta-61069.