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Lab number
S-3364
Field number
CMC-1402
Material dated
bear bone collagen; collagène osseux d' ours
Taxa dated
Ursus sp. humerus
Locality
overlooking the south shore of Amundsen Gulf, 1 m asl, at the northeast corner of Pearce Point Harbour, Arctic coast, Northwest Territories
Map sheet
97 D/14
Submitter
W.E. Taylor
Date submitted
August 8, 0097
Measured Age
1290 ± 60
Normalized Age
1390 ± 65
δ13C (per mil)
-19.0
Significance
Neoeskimo, early Thule, anomalous, old; Néoesquimau, Thuléen, anormal, vieux
Context
house 4, half embedded in sterile sand beneath the cultural layer
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Ursus sp
Additional information
The normalized age assumes that this is a grizzly bear. If it is a polar bear the age would be even older.
Comments
NkRh-3, Pearce Point: House 4 is an early Thule component of a small, coastal winter village. While analyzing the vertebrate remains from W.E. Taylor's assemblage from House 4, D.A. Morrison submitted two more radiocarbon samples that produced dates much younger than those obtained by Taylor. It may be noteworthy that Taylor's samples were recovered from below the house floor whereas Morrison's were on or above it.

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