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Canada / NU / KkDn-2 (Shaymarc) / GSC-849
- Lab number
- GSC-849
- Field number
- CMC- 138
- Material dated
- charred animal remains; restes d'animaux carbonisés
- Taxa dated
- Phocidae? fat
- Locality
- on the bank of Sylvia Grinnell River, Frobisher Bay, Baffin Island, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 25 N/10
- Submitter
- M.S. Maxwell
- Date submitted
- September 20, 0097
- Measured Age
- 4140 ± 130
- Normalized Age
- 4160 ± 135
- δ13C (per mil)
- -23.0
- Significance
- Palaeoeskimo, Predorset; Paléoesquimau; Prédorsétien
- Context
- Pit 8, 15 cm depth
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Phocidae?
- Comments
- KkDn-2, Shaymarc: This partially excavated site yielded an assemblage of 600 Pre-Dorset artifacts typologically early in the Pre-Dorset sequence. The age should be between P-707 for the Closure site (KdDq-11) and P-708 for the Annawak site (KeDr-1).