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Lab number
Beta-11683
Material dated
muskox bone collagen; collagène osseux de boeuf musqué
Taxa dated
Ovibos moschatus
Locality
on the south shore of Creswell Bay, at the north end 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
610 ± 70
Normalized Age
650 ± 70
δ13C (per mil)
-22.24
Significance
Palaeoeskimo, Dorset; Paléoesquimau, Dorsétien
Context
unknown
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Ovibos moschatus
Comments
PeJr-14: The site contains a single stone tentring on a gravel beach 4 m asl, and several linear patches of vegetated midden occupying depressions between adjacent beach ridges. The tentring and portions of the midden have been excavated.

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