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Canada / NU / KdDq-2 (Sandy) / M-1529
- Lab number
- M-1529
- Field number
- CMC- 17
- Material dated
- willow charcoal; charbon de saule
- Taxa dated
- Salix sp. (minor component)
- Locality
- on Juet Island, 4.1 m asl, off the south shore of Baffin Island, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 25 K/12
- Submitter
- M.S. Maxwell
- Date submitted
- September 20, 0097
- Measured Age
- 1470 ± 110
- Normalized Age
- 1470 ± 110
- δ13C (per mil)
- -25.0
- Significance
- Palaeoeskimo, Dorset; Paléoesquimau, Dorsétien
- Stratigraphic component
- Layer 3
- Context
- third or bottom layer, combined from three different 5-foot squares
- Additional information
- Mainly driftwood, a limiting maximum age.
- Comments
- KdDq-2, Sandy: This is a small stratified habitation site with three layers, each about 6 cm thick, separated by thin zones of sterile sand. On the basis of elevation and artifact typology, the site is late in the local Dorset sequence.