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- Lab number
- K-1040
- Material dated
- walrus bone collagen; collagène osseux de morse
- Taxa dated
- Odobenus rosmarus tusk
- Locality
- on Igloolik Island, Foxe Basin, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 47 D/07
- Submitter
- J. Meldgaard
- Date submitted
- July 21, 0098
- Measured Age
- 3880 ± 130
- Normalized Age
- 4040 ± 130
- δ13C (per mil)
- -15.0
- Significance
- Palaeoeskimo, Predorset; Paléoesquimau; Prédorsétien
- Context
- terrace at 46 m asl
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Odobenus rosmarus
- 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.