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Canada / NU / NiNg-17 (Cadfael) / S-3039
- Lab number
- S-3039
- Field number
- CMC-1397
- Material dated
- caribou bone collagen; collagène osseux de caribou
- Taxa dated
- Rangifer tarandus
- Locality
- 1 km north of the mouth of the Ekalluk River, 5 m asl, Victoria Island, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 77 D/06
- Submitter
- W.E. Taylor
- Date submitted
- August 8, 0097
- Measured Age
- 1080 ± 125
- Normalized Age
- 1160 ± 125
- δ13C (per mil)
- -20.0
- Significance
- Palaeoeskimo, Dorset; Paléoesquimau, Dorsétien
- Context
- test cut inside southeast end wall of the southeasterly-most of three long structures, in the thin humus layer, 0-15 cm depth
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Rangifer tarandus
- Comments
- NiNg-17, Cadfael: The site includes three Dorset long structures and two hearth rows near them overlooking Wellington Bay and the Ekalluk River mouth. Other features include unusual anvil boulders.