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Lab number
SI-930
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 27, 0097
Measured Age
2720 ± 125
Normalized Age
2720 ± 125
δ13C (per mil)
-25.0
Significance
Palaeoeskimo, Groswater Dorset; Paléoesquimau, Dorsétien Groswater
Context
hearth, scattered beneath small slab rock 16 cm depth
Additional information
date may be contaminated by admixture with earlier Maritime Archaic material; Buxhall is a component within Rattlers Bight 1
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.

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