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- Lab number
- Beta-40406
- Material dated
- charcoal; charbon de bois
- Taxa dated
- conifer
- Locality
- at the western end of a large shallow bay between Cape Kakkiviak and Killinek Island, northern coastal Labrador
- Map sheet
- 25 A/01
- Submitter
- W.W. Fitzhugh
- Date submitted
- September 10, 0097
- Normalized Age
- 670 ± 130
- Significance
- Palaeoeskimo, Dorset; Paléoesquimau, Dorsétien
- Stratigraphic component
- House 14
- Context
- House 14 midden, test pit 2, 4 m south of house entrance passage
- Comments
- JaDb-2, Staffe Island 1: Architectural features occur in four groups. The Lower Group, at 1.7 m asl, includes Houses 1, 2 and 4, and Tent rings 1-4. The houses contain late Dorset and a few Thule artifacts, while the tent rings appear to be of recent Inuit origin. The Middle Group includes Houses 3 and 5-10, containing mainly late Dorset artifacts and some Thule material. The Upper Group includes Houses 11-14 of which H11 and H14 resemble the middle group houses while H12 and H13 differ, being either double houses or bilobed houses. West of a low rock outcrop there is a cluster of recent-looking tent rings and a sod house, H15, which differs from the others, possibly a dance hall or ~kashim/karrigi<. Radiocarbon dates suggest two periods of Dorset occupation. SI-3396 indicates a Middle Dorset use of House 7, while Beta-40406 dates a Late Dorset midden outside House 14. Thule occupations are dated by SI-3891 on House 9, Beta-33046 and Beta-33047 on House 10, and Beta-33045 on a midden outside House 14. Kaplan (1983) notes that House 9 was built with Dorset tool-laden sod that might have affected the date.