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Lab number
GaK-1494
Field number
CMC- 129
Material dated
plant remains; restes de plantes
Taxa dated
sod
Locality
on the west side of the Tanfield Valley, 11.9 m asl, southern Baffin Island, Nunavut
Map sheet
25 K/12
Submitter
M.S. Maxwell
Date submitted
September 20, 0097
Measured Age
1870 ± 110
Normalized Age
1870 ± 110
δ13C (per mil)
-25.0
Significance
Palaeoeskimo, Dorset, anomalous, young; Paléoesquimau, Dorsétien, anormal, jeune
Context
square OL15, 30 cm depth, in permafrost, just beneath GaK-1284
Comments
KdDq-9, Nanook: Maxwell (1985: 156) notes that this site is very difficult to interpret but "may best be seen as a sort of communal late-winter to early-spring dwelling." ... "Eleven carbon dates are available for the site. The earliest, 420 B.C. (on willow twigs), is probably accurate but may well date the natural growth of the site prior to human occupation. In various assessments of the remaining dates, Arundale concludes that settlement began sometime between 420 and 270 B.C. and lasted until A.D. 123" (Maxwell, 1985: 201).

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