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- Lab number
- UGa-1620
- Material dated
- wood; bois
- Taxa dated
- conifer
- Locality
- on the north shore of Cumberland Sound, 1.6 km west of historic settlement of Avatuktoo, Baffin Island, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 26 J/01
- Submitter
- A.P. McCartney
- Date submitted
- November 3, 0097
- Normalized Age
- 260 ± 55
- Significance
- Neoeskimo; Néoesquimau
- Stratigraphic component
- House 3
- Context
- driftwood?, House 3, section south 12/east 0, level 19, 101-106 cm depth, east living area, to date earliest occupation (and construction) of the house
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Cetacea
- Comments
- MbDg-1: The site contains nine Neoeskimo winter houses, with historic reoccupation noted through the presence of European artifacts. McCartney comments: Given the lack of boulder and slab rock construction (flagstone floor, doorway, distinct walls, benches or platforms) typical of Thule houses in the eastern Canadian Arctic, it is possible that this house might be a qarmat structure of the historic period. Whale bone fragments and a small number of artifacts are present, but none is distinctively from the prehistoric period.