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Canada / NU / PgHb-1 (Nunguvik) / S-848
- Lab number
- S-848
- Field number
- CMC- 652
- Material dated
- caribou bone collagen; collagène osseux de caribou
- Taxa dated
- Rangifer tarandus
- 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 16, 0097
- Measured Age
- 1590 ± 100
- Normalized Age
- 1670 ± 100
- δ13C (per mil)
- -20.0
- Significance
- Palaeoeskimo, Dorset; Paléoesquimau, Dorsétien
- Stratigraphic component
- House 71
- Context
- north-northeast corner of House 71, at bottom of wall, 40-45 cm depth, possibly antedating house 71
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Rangifer tarandus (see also GaK-2339)
- 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.