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Canada / QC / KcFr-3A (Ohituk) / Beta-62290
- Lab number
- Beta-62290
- Material dated
- willow charcoal; charbon de saule
- Taxa dated
- Salix sp.
- Locality
- about 800 m northwest of Ivujivik, 23 m asl, 100 m from the Hudson Strait coast, Nouveau-Québec region, Québec
- Map sheet
- 35 K/05
- Submitter
- M. Nagy
- Date submitted
- April 8, 0098
- Normalized Age
- 1450 ± 130
- Significance
- Palaeoeskimo; Paléoesquimau
- Context
- area A, unit N13/E7, level 1, with the remains of a hearth originally surrounded by flagstones
- Comments
- KcFr-3A, Ohituk: This site consists of three areas (A-C) with two radiocarbon dates available from area A. The artifacts associate area A with an Early Dorset occupation, but the two radiocarbon dates are not concordant with one another. Nagy (1997: 87-88) considers several alternatives to explain the discrepancy between the dates and favours the possibility that the site was repeatedly occupied. The caribou bones dated by AECV-1795 would belong to an older occupation during which most of the artifacts were deposited, and the charcoal dated by Beta-62290 would represent a later, brief occupation with few artifacts left at the site. Given this interpretation, it is assumed that the faunal remains are more reliably associated with the older date.