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- Lab number
- SI-3892
- Material dated
- walrus bone collagen; collagène osseux de morse
- Taxa dated
- Odobenus rosmarus
- Locality
- on Avayalik Island, 25 km south of the tip of the Labrador Peninsula
- Map sheet
- 25 A/01
- Submitter
- R.H. Jordan
- Date submitted
- August 28, 0097
- Measured Age
- 2010 ± 70
- Normalized Age
- 2170 ± 75
- δ13C (per mil)
- -15.0
- Significance
- culture?
- Context
- cache pit not attributable to any particular occupation site
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Odobenus rosmarus, Phoca sp, Monodon monoceros, Cetacea
- Additional information
- It is assumed that this date was not previously corrected for isotopic fractionation.
- Comments
- JaDb-1, Avayalik Island 2: The most obvious feature is a subrectangular boulder outline bisected by an internal central rock feature. The structure might have housed two small family units. SI-3887 is considered satisfactory, but SI-3888 is inexplicably late. A nearby cache pit associated with this site yielded SI-3889, a date somewhat earlier than expected. Another cache pit, not directly attributable to any particular occupation site, yielded SI-3892 on walrus bone. There are at least 25 caches on the slope between Avayalik-1 and Avayalik-2. Five caches south and west of Avayalik-2 were more carefully examined and contained many walrus bones and other species. These are listed here with SI-3892.