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Lab number
GaK-1286
Field number
CMC- 131
Material dated
willow wood; bois de saule
Taxa dated
Salix sp.
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
2370 ± 100
Normalized Age
2370 ± 100
δ13C (per mil)
-25.0
Significance
Palaeoeskimo, Dorset; Paléoesquimau, Dorsétien
Context
twigs, square OL15, 37 cm depth, in permafrost, beginning of occupation
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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