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Canada / NU / PcJq-5 (Cape Garry) / S-1322
- Lab number
- S-1322
- Field number
- CMC- 914
- Material dated
- wood; bois
- Locality
- at the east projection of Cape Garry, 37 km south of the mouth of the Creswell River, Somerset Island, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 58 B/07
- Submitter
- A.P. McCartney
- Date submitted
- August 23, 0097
- Measured Age
- 910 ± 60
- Normalized Age
- 910 ± 60
- δ13C (per mil)
- -25.0
- Significance
- Neoeskimo, Early Classic Thule; Néoesquimau, Thuléen
- Stratigraphic component
- House 18
- Context
- House 18, section C-2, floor muck in front of bench ledge, 20 cm depth
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
- Comments
- PcJq-5, Cape Garry: The site contains 26 Thule winter houses, occasional Dorset artifacts, but no European artifacts. McCartney comments on the Saskatchewan dates: All three dated houses are in the same cluster located on the same beach ridge. Similarity of artifacts and locality suggests contemporary occupation during the classic Thule period. S-1320 appears too early, S-1321 too late, and S-1322 more closely fits the early Thule period. The dated wood is probably trade driftwood from the mainland, and age correction for the gap between the death of the tree and its use is an important factor in the Canadian Archipelago but difficult to estimate.