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Canada / NU / NaPi-2 (Clachan) / S-2024
- Lab number
- S-2024
- Field number
- CMC-1191
- Material dated
- spruce wood; bois d' épinette
- Taxa dated
- Picea sp.
- Locality
- in the Cape Hearne area, Coronation Gulf, 80 m inland from coast, 4 m asl, Arctic coast, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 87 A/03
- Submitter
- D.A. Morrison
- Date submitted
- August 16, 0097
- Measured Age
- 820 ± 80
- Normalized Age
- 820 ± 80
- δ13C (per mil)
- -25.0
- Significance
- Neoeskimo, Clachan Thule; Néoesquimau, Thuléen
- Stratigraphic component
- House 1
- Context
- House 1, S14/W16, middle of wall, 40-50 cm depth
- Associated taxa
- see S-2026
- Comments
- NaPi-2, Clachan: This is a Thule winter house site. Morrison's comment on 10 dates (S-2020 - S-2027, S-2221, S-2222): These ten radiocarbon dates are all too early. Clachan is a Thule winter house site which appears to cross-date between about AD 1150 and 1450, while the radiocarbon dates range from AD 670 (S-2023) to AD 1130 (S-2024). Most of the dates are, in fact, impossibly early for Thule culture in general. There is, however, a fair consistency between dates and their stratigraphic positions, with the basal midden samples dating consistently earlier than samples from the upper midden, and so on. The dated material was in all cases wood, either house posts or small twigs (probably willow). It is suggested that all of the dates are about 300 to 400 years too early, and that this is due to contamination of the samples by seal fat and oil which was abundant in all deposits at the site.