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Lab number
GaK-1907
Material dated
charred animal remains; restes d'animaux carbonisés
Taxa dated
Phocidae fat and soil
Locality
at Cape Ray, 16 km northwest of Port aux Basques, southwestern Newfoundland
Map sheet
11 O/11
Submitter
U. Linnamae
Date submitted
August 22, 0097
Measured Age
1360 ± 90
Normalized Age
1380 ± 95
δ13C (per mil)
-23.0
Significance
Palaeoeskimo, Dorset; Paléoesquimau, Dorsétien
Context
Area C, trench 1
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Phocidae
Comments
CjBt-1, Cape Ray Light: This was probably a spring and summer seal hunting and fishing station occupied repeatedly over a long period of time.

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