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- Lab number
- S-2484
- Field number
- CMC-1313
- Material dated
- ungulate bone collagen; collagène osseux d' ongulé
- Taxa dated
- Rangifer tarandus and Ovibos moschatus
- Locality
- Truelove Lowland, Devon Island, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 48 G/09
- Submitter
- J.W. Helmer
- Date submitted
- August 7, 0097
- Measured Age
- 3850 ± 95
- Normalized Age
- 3930 ± 95
- δ13C (per mil)
- -20.0
- Significance
- Palaeoeskimo; Paléoesquimau
- Stratigraphic component
- Feature 4
- Context
- feature 4, an ovate tent ring, 8-9 m asl, composite sample from 5 1x1 m units (102-104N/135-136E)
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Cetacea, Alopex lagopus, Ursus maritimus, Odobenus rosmarus, Phoca sp, Erignathus barbatus, Rangifer tarandus, Ovibos moschatus; Aves, Chen caerulescens, Clangula hyemalis, Somateria sp
- Additional information
- Listed incorrectly as S-1313, caribou bone (Helmer, 1991: 304), and as musk-ox bone (Helmer, 1991: 307).
- Comments
- QkHn-13, Ice Breaker Beach: This is the type site of Helmer's Icebreaker Beach complex, the second of six episodes of Palaeoeskimo occupation in the north Devon lowlands, represented by Features 1, 4, 14, and 15.