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Lab number
GaK-1493
Field number
CMC- 132
Material dated
charred animal remains; restes d'animaux carbonisés
Taxa dated
Phocidae? fat
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
2010 ± 80
Normalized Age
2030 ± 85
δ13C (per mil)
-23.0
Significance
Palaeoeskimo, Dorset; Paléoesquimau, Dorsétien
Context
square OL15/5L15, 25 cm depth, in permafrost, scraped from encrusted cooking rock
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Phocidae?
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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