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Lab number
Beta-8954
Material dated
charcoal; charbon de bois
Locality
on seven raised gravel beaches on the north shore of a small inlet leading west from Stanwell-Fletcher Lake, Somerset Island, Nunavut
Map sheet
58 B/13
Submitter
E. Bielawski
Date submitted
October 30, 0098
Normalized Age
3250 ± 110
Significance
Palaeoeskimo, anomalous, old; Paléoesquimau, anormal, vieux
Context
Feature 214, a hearth within a house, 14.64 m asl
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Ovibos moschatus, Rangifer tarandus?, Lepus arcticus
Comments
PfJv-2, Tasealuk: Bielawski is not confident that the radiocarbon dates from this site are accurate age estimates. Beta-8951 was a small sample that may have been contaminated both in situ and due to poor collecting conditions, and it is somewhat younger than expected. Beta-8954 is "too early for the standard interpretation of the artifact styles represented" (Bielawski, 1989: 40). Beta-8955 is "too early for the artifacts collected throughout Locality F [and it] may also represent material percolating down the Tasealuk slope from an older context" (Bielawski, 1989: 56).

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