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Lab number
GSC-656
Field number
CMC- 108
Material dated
charcoal and caribou bone; charbon de bois et os de caribou
Taxa dated
Rangifer tarandus (in part)
Locality
on the south bank of Ekalluk (Ferguson) River, 56 km northwest of Cambridge Bay, Victoria Island, Nunavut
Map sheet
77 D/06
Submitter
W.E. Taylor, Jr.
Date submitted
September 2, 0097
Measured Age
2600 ± 130
Normalized Age
2600 ± 130
δ13C (per mil)
-25.0
Significance
Palaeoeskimo, Predorset; Paléoesquimau; Prédorsétien
Context
trench 4, sq. 1, 13-18 cm depth, in hearth at east edge of square
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Rangifer tarandus
Additional information
It is assumed that charcoal was the main constituent.
Comments
NiNg-1, Buchanan: This is an early Dorset site with a Pre-Dorset outlier. All four dates were submitted to date the Pre-Dorset component. Taylor commented that M-1504 and GSC-656 are too late for Pre-Dorset. I-2053 and I-2054 fall within the Pre-Dorset period, but near its end and much later than expected. However, evidence for regional and temporal variation in Pre-Dorset artifacts is still scanty, and there is no reason to reject the last two dates which indicate a late Pre-Dorset occupation at the Buchanan site.

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