TABLE of DATES
ASSOCIATED with LONGHOUSES of UNGAVA
CORR. MASCA
C-14 DATES
SITE CALENDAR AD
UNG-11B-70-3B 280
UNG-11B-77-5 305
UNG-11B-77-1 430
UNG-11B-70-4 440
UNG-11B-70-7 580
UNG-11D-70-14 580
UNG-11D-70-16 600
UNG-11B-77-2 685
UNG-11B-70-5 715
UNG-11B-70-3B 785
First Phase: 505 Years.
Average date is 540; just after Krakatao erupted.
Gap in Occupation: 435 Years
UNG-11D-70-10 1220
UNG-11B-77-3 1250
UNG-11D-70-13 1275
UNG-11B-77-4 1330
UNG-11D-70-15 1350
UNG-11D-70-17 1390
UNG-11D-70-11 1430
Second Phase: 210 years.
Average date is 1321; during little ice age.
Gap in Occupation: 522 years
From Patrick Plummet, Les Maisons lounges Dorsetiennes De Ungava
Geographic Physique et Quaternaire, 1982, Vol XXXVI, NE P 263
Comment: The carbon 14 dating implies:
(1) The longhouse was built before the Dark Ages.
(2) The longhouse was used again during the Little Ice Age
The earlier dates are mostly from grease, presumable grease from seal processing. Theses data are consistent with The Farfarers hypothesis, but about 500 years sooner then described.
The second set of dates comes from carbon dating of wood samples. These data are consistent with the hypothesis that ancestors of the Algonquin-speaking Indians migrated en masse from Greenland by walking on the ice during the little ice age.
