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Lab number
AECV-1348C
Field number
RC5-1
Material dated
caribou bone collagen; collagène osseux de caribou
Taxa dated
Rangifer tarandus (164.6 g)
Locality
inner Frobisher Bay, Baffin Island, Nunavut
Map sheet
25 N/15
Submitter
D.R. Stenton
Date submitted
July 13, 0098
Normalized Age
550 ± 50
Significance
Neoeskimo, Thule; Néoesquimau, Thuléen
Stratigraphic component
House 5
Context
House 5 floor, 1.10 m below datum, 6 m asl
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Phoca hispida, Phoca groenlandica, Erignathus barbatus, Balaena mysticetus, Odobenus rosmarus, Rangifer tarandus, Canis familiaris
Additional information
Faunal data were read from a histogram covering the entire site (Stenton and Rigby, 1995: Fig. 10).
Comments
KkDo-3, Tungatsivvik: More than 100 features have been identified at this site, including Thule dwellings, food caches, kayak stands, and burials. Stenton comments that the five dates from this site confirm that it was occupied during all phases of the Thule era, ca. AD 1000-1700. The earliest component produced dates from the Classic Thule period (12th and 13th centuries AD), and yielded diagnostic artifacts similar to those found at the Classic Crystal II site near Iqaluit. The radiocarbon estimates and artifactual evidence are also in agreement for later occupations, during the Developed and Late Thule periods.

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