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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.