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Canada / NU / PgHb-7 (Arnakadlak) / S-591
- Lab number
- S-591
- Field number
- CMC- 389
- Material dated
- sea mammal bone collagen; collagène osseux de mammifères marins
- Locality
- on the west coast of Navy Board Inlet, 6.5 m asl, northern Baffin Island, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 48 D/01
- Submitter
- G. Mary-Rousselière
- Date submitted
- August 25, 0097
- Measured Age
- 2725 ± 140
- Normalized Age
- 2885 ± 140
- δ13C (per mil)
- -15.0
- Significance
- Palaeoeskimo, Dorset; Paléoesquimau, Dorsétien
- Context
- old tent ring, 10-15 cm depth
- Additional information
- Mary-Rousselière gives the Borden number PgHb-3.
- Comments
- PgHb-7, Arnakadlak: This is a Predorset-Dorset transitional site, with several Thule houses and old-looking tent rings at 1-3 m asl. The first dates obtained were much too late (S-1208) or possibly unreliable because marine mammal bone was used (S-591). Father Rousselière comments on S-2883: "Though I had noted that the stone artifacts looked much closer to Predorset than to Dorset, I had tentatively accepted the 2725 BP date (S-591) for the following reasons: 2 of the 3 harpoon heads from the site are of types found by Meldgaard at levels (23 m and 25 m) roughly corresponding to that date. Moreover the burins, and especially the "mini-burins," found at Arnakadlak were very similar to those from Nunguvik 46 (ca. 400 BC). I now believe that the 2 rare types of harpoon heads may have been in use for a much longer period, as well as the burins, and I accept the new date (S-2883)."