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- Lab number
- Beta-20782
- Material dated
- charcoal; charbon de bois
- Locality
- Truelove Lowland, Devon Island, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 48 G/09
- Submitter
- J.W. Helmer
- Date submitted
- August 7, 0097
- Normalized Age
- 4500 ± 80
- Significance
- Palaeoeskimo, Predorset, anomalous, old; Paléoesquimau; Prédorsétien, anormal
- Stratigraphic component
- Feature 14
- Context
- driftwood?, feature 14, an ovate tent ring, 8-9 m asl
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Lepus arcticus, Dicrostonyx sp, Cetacea, Canis sp, Alopex lagopus, Ursus maritimus, Odobenus rosmarus, Phoca sp, Erignathus barbatus, Rangifer tarandus, Ovibos moschatus; Aves, Chen caerulescens, Clangula hyemalis, Somateria sp, Branta bernicla, Larus hyperboreus
- Comments
- QkHn-13, Ice Breaker Beach: This is the type site of Helmer's Icebreaker Beach complex, the second of six episodes of Palaeoeskimo occupation in the north Devon lowlands, represented by Features 1, 4, 14, and 15.