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Canada / NU / PfJv-2 (Tasealuk) / Beta-8954
- Lab number
- Beta-8954
- Material dated
- charcoal; charbon de bois
- Locality
- on seven raised gravel beaches on the north shore of a small inlet leading west from Stanwell-Fletcher Lake, Somerset Island, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 58 B/13
- Submitter
- E. Bielawski
- Date submitted
- October 30, 0098
- Normalized Age
- 3250 ± 110
- Significance
- Palaeoeskimo, anomalous, old; Paléoesquimau, anormal, vieux
- Context
- Feature 214, a hearth within a house, 14.64 m asl
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Ovibos moschatus, Rangifer tarandus?, Lepus arcticus
- Comments
- PfJv-2, Tasealuk: Bielawski is not confident that the radiocarbon dates from this site are accurate age estimates. Beta-8951 was a small sample that may have been contaminated both in situ and due to poor collecting conditions, and it is somewhat younger than expected. Beta-8954 is "too early for the standard interpretation of the artifact styles represented" (Bielawski, 1989: 40). Beta-8955 is "too early for the artifacts collected throughout Locality F [and it] may also represent material percolating down the Tasealuk slope from an older context" (Bielawski, 1989: 56).