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- Lab number
- SI-2563A
- Material dated
- unknown
- Locality
- Wiegand Island, Belcher Islands, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 34 D/11
- Submitter
- E. Harp, Jr.
- Date submitted
- May 11, 2000
- Normalized Age
- 2675
- Significance
- Palaeoeskimo, Dorset; Paléoesquimau, Dorsétien
- Context
- House 5
- Comments
- HdGt-2, Tuurngasiti 2: This is one of the most important Dorset sites discovered during the 1974 season. It consisted of 15 summer houses on closely adjacent terraces. In 1974, 42 squares were excavated covering four adjoining hearth areas, and in 1975, seven more houses were excavated. Harp distrusted the wide range of dates from this site, regarding the oldest (SI-2564) and the two youngest (SI-2566, SI-2567) as extreme. "Those in the middle range might be more reasonably grouped together in comfortable moderation."