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- Lab number
- GSC-148
- Material dated
- charred plant remains; restes de plantes carbonisés
- Taxa dated
- moss
- Locality
- in McCormick Inlet, 1.8 m asl, Melville Island, Northwest Territories
- Map sheet
- 88 H/16
- Submitter
- W.E. Taylor, Jr.
- Date submitted
- September 20, 0097
- Measured Age
- 1150 ± 160
- Normalized Age
- 1150 ± 160
- δ13C (per mil)
- -25.0
- Significance
- Palaeoeskimo, Dorset; Paléoesquimau, Dorsétien
- Context
- upper surface of a hearthstone, mixed with wood and bone, giving the impression of having been placed there as fuel
- Comments
- QkPa-1, McCormick Inlet: W.E.S. Henoch, Geographical Branch in Ottawa, collected artifacts from a prehistoric dwelling. The artifacts were identified as Dorset by W.E. Taylor, Jr. The site constituted the northwesternmost occurrence of Dorset yet discovered. The elevation and date suggest that isostatic rebound has been less than 1.8 m during the last 1.5 millennia.