CARD fuzzes location data for public visitors to the database. Accessing CARD's full capabilities requires an account available only to researchers at accredited institutions.
Canada / NU / PeHa-1 (Saatut II) / S-671
- Lab number
- S-671
- Field number
- CMC- 406
- Material dated
- sea mammal bone collagen; collagène osseux de mammifères marins
- Locality
- on the west coast of Eclipse Sound, south of the river, Baffin Island, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 48 A/09
- Submitter
- G. Mary-Rousselière
- Date submitted
- August 17, 0097
- Measured Age
- 2405 ± 80
- Normalized Age
- 2565 ± 80
- δ13C (per mil)
- -15.0
- Significance
- Palaeoeskimo, Dorset; Paléoesquimau, Dorsétien
- Context
- Saatut II, house, square 2
- Comments
- PeHa-1, Saatut: Saatut I and II are at different elevations, but the artifacts suggest contemporaneity. Saatut I is an artifact-rich Dorset midden 2.7 m above sea level, and Saatut II is a Dorset house 40 m away at an elevation of 5 m. The difference in elevation might imply a difference in age, but the artifact styles suggest that they are contemporary. Father Rousselière submitted four pairs of samples from this site, each consisting of a sample from Saatut I and another from Saatut II. Initially he estimated the age of the site at 1800-1700 BP, but eventually he revised the estimate to 1550 BP after several pairs of dates were obtained. The overall results are equivocal as to the contemporaneity of the two site areas, but most of the dates are closer to the revised estimate. The picture is complicated by changes over time in the methods of sample pretreatment. All of the samples consisted of bone, and all but the first pair are identified as caribou. Six of the dates were prepared by an insoluble collagen extraction, a method that was later suspected to produce dates somewhat too recent. The last two, S-2189 and S-2190, were prepared by extracting collagen in a soluble form, and these should be considered more reliable.