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- Lab number
- SI-2146
- Material dated
- charcoal; charbon de bois
- Locality
- on the northeast shore of Groswater Bay, 6.7 m asl, Hamilton Inlet, Labrador
- Map sheet
- 13 I/06
- Submitter
- W.W. Fitzhugh
- Date submitted
- June 26, 0097
- Normalized Age
- 4650 ± 60
- Significance
- Maritime Archaic; Archaïque maritime
- Context
- Feature A
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Phoca vitulina, Phoca groenlandicus, Odobenus rosmarus, Rangifer tarandus, Ursus americanus, Lutra canadensis, Lepus sp, Ondatra zibethicus, Rodentia (Castor or Erethizon); Aves, Bucephala clangula, Melanitta perspicillata, Melanitta nigra, Melanitta fusca, Somateria spectabilis, Alle alle, Clangula hyemalis, Anas sp, Charadriiformes (shorebirds)
- Additional information
- Exact association between vertebrates and dates is not clear.
- Comments
- GcBi-7, Rattlers Bight 1: This large habitation and cemetery site is the type site of the Rattlers Bight complex of the Maritime Archaic tradition. GSC-1260 and GSC-1379 suggest that occupation began soon after the emergence of the site from the sea.