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- Lab number
- Beta-153136
- Field number
- CMC-1566
- Material dated
- caribou bone collagen; collagène osseux de caribou
- Taxa dated
- Rangifer tarandus antler (RaJu-1: 357, 9.14 g)
- Locality
- 7 m asl, north coast of Dundas Island, Wellington Channel, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 59 B/03
- Submitter
- R. McGhee
- Date submitted
- April 20, 2001
- Measured Age
- 900 ± 40
- Normalized Age
- 990 ± 40
- δ13C (per mil)
- -19.7
- Significance
- Palaeoeskimo, Dorset; Paléoesquimau, Dorsetien
- Context
- House 4 midden, surface
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Rangifer tarandus
- Additional information
- AMS date.
- Comments
- RaJu-1, Snowdrift: This is a single component Late Dorset occupation site comprising six dwellings and an extensive midden well preserved beneath an almost continuous snowbank. McGhee finds Beta-153136 to be in good accord with the Late Dorset association.