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- Lab number
- GSC-1899
- Material dated
- whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
- Taxa dated
- Balaena mysticetus rib?
- Locality
- at the east side of the entrance to Muskox Fiord, 3.5 m asl, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 49 B/05
- Submitter
- W. Blake, Jr.
- Date submitted
- September 2, 0097
- Normalized Age
- 1110 ± 80
- δ13C (per mil)
- -14.9
- Significance
- Neoeskimo; Néoesquimau
- Context
- structural component of a house
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
- Comments
- RcHw-1, Muskox Fiord: The dated whale bone, probably part of a rib, was one of two small pieces fitted into larger bones forming the base and lower wall of a house structure, the middle and main house of several house ruins at the site. Sea level cannot have been more than 1.5 m higher that present during the occupation or the lowest entrance tunnels to the houses would have been flooded by high water. If the bones derived from a whale killed by the occupants of the house, this age determination reinforces the data from the Cape Storm area, on the west side of the entrance to the fiord (Blake, 1972) that land uplift during the past few centuries has been negligible. If the bone derived from a whale that died before the site was occupied, then the age cannot be used to pin-point the position of sea level but does put a limiting date on the time of site occupancy.