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Canada / NU / KdDq-8-2 (Kemp) / GSC-794
- Lab number
- GSC-794
- Field number
- CMC- 135
- Material dated
- wood; bois
- Locality
- Cape Tanfield, 9.5 m asl, Baffin Island, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 25 K/12
- Submitter
- M.S. Maxwell
- Date submitted
- September 2, 0097
- Measured Age
- 2040 ± 130
- Normalized Age
- 2040 ± 130
- δ13C (per mil)
- -25.0
- Significance
- Palaeoeskimo, Dorset; Paléoesquimau, Dorsétien
- Stratigraphic component
- Area 2
- Context
- square 5L15, 38 cm depth, in permafrost
- Additional information
- Predominantly driftwood, should provide maximum limit on age.
- Comments
- KdDq-8-2, Kemp, area 2 of KdDq-8: This is a very rich stratified midden, 35-40 cm thick. Maxwell (1985: 200) comments: "The carbon dates from the site are of only limited usefulness. Driftwood from about the middle of the fourth level dating 90 B.C. (GSC-794) indicates little. A corrected charred fat date ... (M-1534) from 20 cm beneath the surface seems a reasonable date for the latest settlement. Based primarily on the recovered harpoon heads, I would suggest that the site was occupied sporadically by two or at the most three families in very cold winters for as many as five centuries, between 300 B.C. and A.D. 200."