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- Lab number
- P-209
- Material dated
- walrus or narwhal bone; os de morse ou de narval
- Taxa dated
- Odobenus or Monodon tusk
- Locality
- on Igloolik Island, Foxe Basin, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 47 D/07
- Submitter
- J. Meldgaard
- Date submitted
- September 2, 0097
- Measured Age
- 3906 ± 133
- Normalized Age
- 4066 ± 133
- δ13C (per mil)
- -15.0
- Significance
- Palaeoeskimo, Predorset; Paléoesquimau; Prédorsétien
- Context
- house ruin on 52 m terrace
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Odobenus rosmarus or Monodon monoceros
- Additional information
- Whole tusk was burned to prepare the sample. The normalized age is a minimum.
- Comments
- NiHf-1, Kaleruserk or Parry Hill: It contains rich habitation debris on beach ridges between 42 and 54 m asl, with numerous house ruins and extensive middens representing early Pre-Dorset, a more scattered habitation during the later stages of Pre-Dorset, and a few houses from early Dorset.