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- Lab number
- Beta-16554
- Field number
- AMS
- Material dated
- charcoal; charbon de bois
- Locality
- Truelove Lowland, Devon Island, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 48 G/09
- Submitter
- J.W. Helmer
- Date submitted
- August 26, 0098
- Normalized Age
- 4060 ± 80
- Significance
- Palaeoeskimo, Predorset, anomalous, old; Paléoesquimau; Prédorsétien, anormal
- Stratigraphic component
- Feature 15
- Context
- feature 15, an amorphous tent ring, 6-7 m asl
- Comments
- QkHn-27, Rocky Point: This is the type site of Helmer's Rocky Point complex, the fourth episode of Palaeoeskimo occupation in the north Devon lowlands. Helmer considers both dates to be older than the 3200-2800 BP time range inferred from comparative analysis. Feature 17 contained the nearly complete skeleton of a human fetus, 7-12 weeks premature.