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Lab number
Beta-101514
Field number
CMC-1494
Material dated
caribou bone collagen; collagène osseux de caribou
Taxa dated
Rangifer tarandus
Locality
at the base of Mount Oliver, north shore of Hazard Inlet, southeast Somerset Island, Nunavut
Map sheet
58 B/03
Submitter
P. Whitridge
Date submitted
August 10, 0097
Measured Age
460 ± 90
Normalized Age
540 ± 90
δ13C (per mil)
-20.0
Significance
Neoeskimo, early classic Thule; Néoesquimau, Thuléen
Context
composite, house 29, level 2, units 12, 17, 19, and 23, 15-20 cm depth
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus, Rangifer tarandus
Comments
PaJs-2, Qariaraqyuk: This is a winter village with 59 houses, many caches, tent rings, burials, qarmat, and a scatter of over 3300 bowhead whale bones.

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