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- Lab number
- GSC-1210
- Field number
- CMC- 309
- Material dated
- marine shell; coquillage
- Taxa dated
- Mytilus edulis
- Locality
- on the crest of the eastern wing of Eskimo Island, 7.3 m asl, Lake Melville, Hamilton Inlet, Labrador
- Map sheet
- 13 J/02
- Submitter
- W.W. Fitzhugh
- Date submitted
- July 1, 0097
- Normalized Age
- 2160 ± 130
- δ13C (per mil)
- 0.6
- Significance
- Palaeoeskimo; Paléoesquimau
- Context
- shell bed 12.5 cm thick, on bedrock, beneath basal peat with Eskimo midden
- Associated taxa
- Mollusca: Mytilus edulis
- Comments
- GaBp-1, Eskimo Island 1: There are three semisubterranean winter houses and a midden. GSC-1210 provides both a date for the midden and a reference point for the study of isostatic rebound.