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Canada / NU / PgHb-1 (Nunguvik) / S-845
- Lab number
- S-845
- Field number
- CMC- 649
- Material dated
- plant remains; restes de plantes
- Taxa dated
- Cassiope tetragona (mostly)
- Locality
- on the west coast of Navy Board Inlet, Borden Peninsula, Baffin Island, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 48 D/01
- Submitter
- G. Mary-Rousselière
- Date submitted
- August 17, 0097
- Measured Age
- 1310 ± 90
- Normalized Age
- 1310 ± 90
- δ13C (per mil)
- -25.0
- Significance
- Palaeoeskimo, Dorset; Paléoesquimau, Dorsétien
- Stratigraphic component
- House 76
- Context
- thick layer of plant material (mattress?) in House 76, 25 cm depth, 5.5 m asl
- Comments
- PgHb-1, Nunguvik: The site was occupied throughout most of the Dorset and Thule periods, with more than 80 houses. Radiocarbon dates have been obtained on the following houses: House 42, an early Thule house built on an earlier Dorset site; House 46, an early Dorset house; House 52, a Thule house; House 71, a rectangular Dorset house; House 72, a late Dorset house; House 73, an extensive house complex with several stone structures of uncertain pourpose; and House 76, a middle Dorset house. Wilmeth (1978: 22-25) provides extensive commentary that was written prior to the realization that radiocarbon dates must be normalized to a single 13C ratio.