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Lab number
GSC-1260
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
July 1, 0097
Measured Age
3830 ± 140
Normalized Age
3850 ± 140
δ13C (per mil)
-24.1
Significance
Maritime Archaic; Archaïque maritime
Context
Sq. 0N/35W, in hearth 8-18 cm depth, with burned food bones and red ochre
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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