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Canada / NU / KdDq-8-3 (Kakela) / M-1532
- Lab number
- M-1532
- Field number
- CMC- 20
- Material dated
- charred animal remains; restes d'animaux carbonisés
- Taxa dated
- Phocidae? fat
- Locality
- Cape Tanfield, Baffin Island, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 25 K/12
- Submitter
- M.S. Maxwell
- Date submitted
- September 2, 0097
- Measured Age
- 3880 ± 150
- Normalized Age
- 3900 ± 155
- δ13C (per mil)
- -23.0
- Significance
- Palaeoeskimo; Paléoesquimau
- Stratigraphic component
- Area 3
- Context
- cemented sand 25 cm below base of sod in cultural midden
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Phocidae?
- Additional information
- Re-run: 3850 +/- 150 BP.
- Comments
- KdDq-8-3, Kakela, Area 3 of KdDq-8: The cultural midden extends to about 40 cm below the sod base with the lowest cultural level resting on an old sod surface. The site was apparently first occupied some time after retreat of sea water from this elevation, but it is not a particularly valuable location for habitation if the sea is more than 7.5 m below its elevation. The assemblage belongs early in the Dorset continuum and should be slightly older than the T1 site (KkHh-1). Maxwell comments that the site falls within the period of developed Dorset culture and that a date earlier than 700 BC would conflict with interpretations of all archaeological investigations in the eastern Arctic. A re-run was made but confirmed the first determination. Re-examination of data indicates that the sample was associated with very early stone tools now recognized as older than the major part of the assemblage. Sod containing the artifacts and the sample may have been cut from an earlier site (perhaps the Pre-Dorset Loon site, KdDq-10) for use in a sod dwelling.