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- Lab number
- RIDDL-324
- Material dated
- caribou bone collagen; collagène osseux de caribou
- Taxa dated
- Rangifer tarandus antler (QdJb-3: 20)
- Locality
- on the southwest coast of Devon Island, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 58 E/09
- Submitter
- P. Sutherland
- Date submitted
- October 19, 0097
- Normalized Age
- 560 ± 160
- δ13C (per mil)
- -20.0
- Significance
- Neoeskimo; Néoesquimau
- Context
- worked antler
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Rangifer tarandus
- Additional information
- AMS date.
- Comments
- QdJb-3, Maxwell Bay: The site was first reported in 1936 when a small collection of Dorset and Thule artifacts was donated to the National Museum. Its precise location was recorded by a NOGAP survey in 1985. P. Sutherland notes that a number of harpoon heads from the 1936 collection have been cited previously as indicating a very early Thule occupation for this site. RIDDL-324 suggests a Classic Thule occupation for this winter settlement. Despite the stylistic evidence suggesting an earlier occupation, there is no reason to question this date, because houses in Thule villages were often re-inhabited. Morrison (1989: 73) observes that much of the Maxwell Bay collection is of Early Classic Thule affiliation, but the assemblage also contains later Neoeskimo as well as Dorset material. The antler handle dated by RIDDL-324 is not diagnostic, beyond suggesting a Neoeskimo affiliation.