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Canada / QC / IhFh-7 (Michea = Tuktu) / P-176
- Lab number
- P-176
- Material dated
- caribou bone; os de caribou
- Taxa dated
- Rangifer tarandus antler
- Locality
- north bank of the Arnaud River, about 400 m from its exit from Payne Lake, r. Arnaud, région de Nouveau-Québec, Québec
- Map sheet
- 34 P/06
- Submitter
- W.E. Taylor, Jr.
- Date submitted
- December 14, 0097
- Measured Age
- 649 ± 100
- Normalized Age
- 730 ± 105
- δ13C (per mil)
- -20.0
- Significance
- Palaeoeskimo, Dorset; Paléoesquimau, Dorsétien
- Context
- northeast corner of square 1, test 3, in near-black greasy, peaty humus, above coarse sand and gravel, under sterile sand and modern turf, 33-43 cm depth
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Rangifer tarandus
- Additional information
- Whole antler was burned to prepare the sample. The normalized age is a minimum value.
- Comments
- IhFh-7, Michea (Tuktu): Taylor identified the Tuktu site of his 1957 work as T.E. Lee's Michea site of 1964. Although skeptical of the 1946 data that led to the initial suggestion that this site was Dorset, Taylor, as a result of his 1957 field work there, reported the site to contain both Dorset culture and post-European contact remains. Despite Lee's more recent conclusions, Taylor retains his original interpretation. Further, he rejects Lee's claim (see below) that stone work of this site is identical to that of historic Sadlermiut in so far as he understands it from the literature and field work on Southampton, Coats and Walrus Islands (Taylor, 1960). A single fragmentary Dorset harpoon head is one of the very few age indicators in Taylor's Tuktu sample. Since it suggests a middle to late Dorset period occupation, and since P-176 and P-177 indicate an occupation late in the Dorset continuum, Taylor considers these two test results approximately correct, ... although because of their material, they may be a little too young... (Note that both dates must be normalized to ages at least 80 years older than the measured ages). Lee comments that since 1948, this site has been erroneously ascribed to the Dorset culture. Field work in 1964 indicated that the pits were not dug by people of that culture. The stone work is identical with historic Sadlermiut culture... Origins of these cultures are poorly known. This represents the first inland occurrence of either Dorset or Sadlermiut culture.