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Lab number
Beta-10702
Material dated
muskox bone collagen; collagène osseux de boeuf musqué
Taxa dated
Ovibos moschatus
Locality
on the south shore of Creswell Bay, on the west side of a 1.5 km point extending north into the bay, Somerset Island, Nunavut
Map sheet
58 B/10
Submitter
E. Damkjar
Date submitted
July 20, 0099
Measured Age
670 ± 70
Normalized Age
720 ± 70
δ13C (per mil)
-21.93
Significance
Palaeoeskimo, Dorset; Paléoesquimau, Dorsétien
Context
Dorset longhouse
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Ovibos moschatus
Comments
PeJr-8, Loon: The site contains a Dorset longhouse, 31 hearths or cooking pit outside the longhouse, a tentring, 21 caches, and four distinct midden areas. The longhouse and several cooking pits and midden areas have been excavated.

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