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- Lab number
- K-505
- Material dated
- caribou bone; os de caribou
- Taxa dated
- Rangifer tarandus antler
- Locality
- on Igloolik Island, Foxe Basin, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 47 D/07
- Submitter
- J. Meldgaard
- Date submitted
- September 2, 0097
- Measured Age
- 3700 ± 300
- Normalized Age
- 3780 ± 300
- δ13C (per mil)
- -20.0
- Significance
- Palaeoeskimo, Predorset; Paléoesquimau; Prédorsétien
- Context
- house ruin on 52 m terrace
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Canis familiaris, Rangifer tarandus
- Additional information
- Whole antler was burned to prepare the sample. The normalized age is a minimum.
- Comments
- NiHf-1, Kaleruserk or Parry Hill: It contains rich habitation debris on beach ridges between 42 and 54 m asl, with numerous house ruins and extensive middens representing early Pre-Dorset, a more scattered habitation during the later stages of Pre-Dorset, and a few houses from early Dorset.