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Lab number
M-1534
Field number
CMC- 22
Material dated
charred animal remains; restes d'animaux carbonisés
Taxa dated
Phocidae? fat
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
2200 ± 120
Normalized Age
2220 ± 125
δ13C (per mil)
-23.0
Significance
Palaeoeskimo, Dorset; Paléoesquimau, Dorsétien
Stratigraphic component
Area 2
Context
cemented sand 20 cm below base of sod in cultural midden
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Phocidae?
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."

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