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- Lab number
- GSC-1367
- Material dated
- charcoal; charbon de bois
- Locality
- on either side of a small pond, 7.1-8.5 m asl, East Pompey Island, Groswater Bay, Hamilton Inlet, Labrador
- Map sheet
- 13 I/06
- Submitter
- W.W. Fitzhugh
- Date submitted
- June 27, 0097
- Measured Age
- 2490 ± 160
- Normalized Age
- 2520 ± 160
- δ13C (per mil)
- -23.0
- Significance
- Palaeoeskimo, Groswater Dorset; Paléoesquimau, Dorsétien Groswater
- Context
- Areas 1 and 2, composite sample, 15-41 cm depth
- Comments
- GcBi-12, East Pompey Island 1: GSC-1367 is not from a specific archaeological feature but from cultural layers generally 15-41 cm beneath the tundra surface on either side of a small pond. A peaty zone 5-20 cm thick overlay the cultural deposit. The Dorset assemblage from this site is similar in all respects to the collection from the Ticoralak-5 site (GbBn-7). Fitzhugh notes that GSC-1367 is within the general framework of other Dorset site dates in the area and re-emphasizes the early period of Dorset occupation in Groswater Bay. The site elevation is above that of nearby Rattlers Bight-1 Maritime Archaic, and it indicates the site's remoteness from the active beach line during its occupation.