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Lab number
Beta-153136
Field number
CMC-1566
Material dated
caribou bone collagen; collagène osseux de caribou
Taxa dated
Rangifer tarandus antler (RaJu-1: 357, 9.14 g)
Locality
7 m asl, north coast of Dundas Island, Wellington Channel, Nunavut
Map sheet
59 B/03
Submitter
R. McGhee
Date submitted
April 20, 2001
Measured Age
900 ± 40
Normalized Age
990 ± 40
δ13C (per mil)
-19.7
Significance
Palaeoeskimo, Dorset; Paléoesquimau, Dorsetien
Context
House 4 midden, surface
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Rangifer tarandus
Additional information
AMS date.
Comments
RaJu-1, Snowdrift: This is a single component Late Dorset occupation site comprising six dwellings and an extensive midden well preserved beneath an almost continuous snowbank. McGhee finds Beta-153136 to be in good accord with the Late Dorset association.

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