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Canada / NU / TjFd-3 (West Wind) / S-2214
- Lab number
- S-2214
- Field number
- CMC-1253
- Material dated
- willow charcoal; charbon de saule
- Taxa dated
- Salix sp.
- Locality
- on the north shore of the Very River at the west end of the first widening of the river, 3 m above present river level, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 340 D/09
- Submitter
- P. Sutherland
- Date submitted
- August 17, 0097
- Measured Age
- 4055 ± 80
- Normalized Age
- 4055 ± 80
- δ13C (per mil)
- -25.0
- Significance
- Palaeoeskimo, Independence I; Paléoesquimau, Indépendentien I
- Context
- Feature 5, the central hearth, 10-20 cm depth
- Comments
- TjFd-3, West Wind: There are four structures with midpassage features, three tent rings and a cache. Sutherland comments that the dates correspond well with radiocarbon dates from Kettle Lake in Tanquary Fiord on northern Ellesmere Island, and with the range of Independence I dates from Pearyland (Knuth, 1981: 106-107).