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Lab number
S-3531
Field number
93-DCA-041
Material dated
whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
Taxa dated
Balaena mysticetus periotic (id. by A.S. Dyke)
Locality
5.5 km west-northwest of Owen Point, 2.7-3 m asl, Wellington Channel coast of Devon Island, Nunavut
Map sheet
59 B/01
Submitter
A.S. Dyke
Date submitted
August 21, 0098
Measured Age
540 ± 130
Normalized Age
695 ± 130
δ13C (per mil)
-15.2
Significance
palaeobiology, archaeology?; paléobiologie, archéologie?
Context
surface of bouldery beach gravel on a raised beach overlooking Wellington Channel
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
Comments
RaJo-VP: A periotic bone was collected from one side of a bowhead skull resting upside down on the surface of hummocky, bouldery beach gravel. There are at least five Thule stone house structures nearby, so this whale may have been hunted. A large stone meat cache has a bowhead mandible beside it. The skull is 118 cm wide between weathered processes.

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