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Canada / NL / DiAu-3 (Woodward) / GaK-2343
- Lab number
- GaK-2343
- Field number
- CMC- 220
- Material dated
- charcoal; charbon de bois
- Locality
- at the bottom of West Arm, New Bay, Notre Dame Bay, Newfoundland
- Map sheet
- 2 E/06
- Submitter
- H.E. Devereux
- Date submitted
- July 6, 0097
- Measured Age
- 1680 ± 100
- Normalized Age
- 1680 ± 100
- δ13C (per mil)
- -25.0
- Significance
- Palaeoeskimo, Dorset?; Paléoesquimau, Dorsétien?
- Context
- pit, 4 x 0.9 x 0.5 m deep, with rock slabs and red ochre, 27 cm depth
- Additional information
- This site is incorrectly listed as DiAs-1 in Wilmeth (1978).
- Comments
- DiAu-3, Woodward's Cabin: The contents of the pit and their arrangement suggest a burial pit, the skeletal material having predictably disintegrated in soils characteristic of this part of the island. On the basis of time and place, it is possible that the pit is all that remains of a Dorset culture burial, but it could be of Indian derivation. The date compares closely with one from the Pittman site (DkBe-1) Dorset component (GaK-1482), and it falls well within the range of the Dorset series from Phillip's Garden (Port-aux-Choix-2, EeBi-1). However, it is also not far removed from the age of a chipped stone assemblage of probable Indian derivation from the Beaches site (DeAk-1, GaK-1481).