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- Lab number
- I-2057
- Field number
- CMC- 90
- Material dated
- charcoal; charbon de bois
- Locality
- about 1.6 km southeast of the mouth of Ekalluk River on southeastern Victoria Island, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 77 D/06
- Submitter
- W.E. Taylor, Jr.
- Date submitted
- September 21, 0097
- Measured Age
- 3180 ± 120
- Normalized Age
- 3180 ± 120
- δ13C (per mil)
- -25.0
- Significance
- Palaeoeskimo, Predorset; Paléoesquimau; Prédorsétien
- Context
- section 3, test cut 1, culture layer, 18-20 cm depth
- Comments
- NiNg-7, Wellington Bay: The site contains Pre-Dorset material associated with a high percentage of sea mammal remains, suggesting a predominantly marine-based subsistence pattern at a time when sea level was considerably higher. The date indicates that this is a late Pre-Dorset site.