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Canada / NU / NiHa-1 (Kaersut Island) / K-504
- Lab number
- K-504
- Material dated
- caribou bone; os de caribou
- Taxa dated
- Rangifer tarandus antler
- Locality
- on Kaersut Island, Igloolik area, Foxe Basin, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 47 D/08
- Submitter
- J. Meldgaard
- Date submitted
- September 2, 0097
- Measured Age
- 600 ± 150
- Normalized Age
- 680 ± 150
- δ13C (per mil)
- -20.0
- Significance
- Palaeoeskimo, Dorset; Paléoesquimau, Dorsétien
- Context
- house ruin, 8 m asl
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Rangifer tarandus
- Additional information
- Whole antler was burned to prepare the sample. The normalized age is a minimum value.
- Comments
- NiHa-1, Kaersut Island: This is a house ruin of the latest Dorset stage, the artifacts showing the influence of invading Thule people. K-504 should give the period of contact between two cultures, probably representing the end of the Dorset occupation of this area, and it should also indicate a time when sea level was about 6.5 m higher than at present.