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Canada / NU / KkJg-1 (Silumiut) / SI-768B
- Lab number
- SI-768B
- Material dated
- caribou bone collagen; collagène osseux de caribou
- Taxa dated
- Rangifer tarandus antler
- Locality
- on an island just off the Hudson Bay coast, 4.8 km northeast of Chesterfield, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 55 O/09
- Submitter
- A.P. McCartney
- Date submitted
- November 3, 0097
- Measured Age
- 745 ± 40
- Normalized Age
- 825 ± 45
- δ13C (per mil)
- -20.0
- Significance
- Neoeskimo, Classic Thule; Néoesquimau, Thuléen
- Stratigraphic component
- House 14
- Context
- House 14 midden, level 1, 0-32 cm depth
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Rangifer tarandus
- Additional information
- Apatite from this sample dated 6075 +/- 500 BP (SI-768A).
- Comments
- KkJg-1, Silumiut: Near the centre of the island on the highest hill, 38 m asl, are 28 winter house depressions. This Thule site also includes 186 burial cairns, many meat caches, and tent rings. McCartney tentatively accepts GaK-2749 on the burial despite the lack of grave material. The burial should be early Thule on the basis of skeletal decomposition relative to the slightly acid bedrock floor and extensive lichen cover on the cairn. A large bone toggle harpoon head from the burial is non-Thule in style and is regarded as an historic intrusion. Some Silumiut burials are historic in age, as suggested by European items, and others might fall between historic and Thule periods spanning roughly 500-700 years. GaK-2759, on House 3, overlaps the age ranges for Kamarvik (LeHv-1) and Igluligardjuk (KiJi-3) but is slightly more recent.