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Canada / NU / PeJr-8 (Loon) / Beta-10702
- Lab number
- Beta-10702
- Material dated
- muskox bone collagen; collagène osseux de boeuf musqué
- Taxa dated
- Ovibos moschatus
- Locality
- on the south shore of Creswell Bay, on the west side of a 1.5 km point extending north into the bay, Somerset Island, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 58 B/10
- Submitter
- E. Damkjar
- Date submitted
- July 20, 0099
- Measured Age
- 670 ± 70
- Normalized Age
- 720 ± 70
- δ13C (per mil)
- -21.93
- Significance
- Palaeoeskimo, Dorset; Paléoesquimau, Dorsétien
- Context
- Dorset longhouse
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Ovibos moschatus
- Comments
- PeJr-8, Loon: The site contains a Dorset longhouse, 31 hearths or cooking pit outside the longhouse, a tentring, 21 caches, and four distinct midden areas. The longhouse and several cooking pits and midden areas have been excavated.