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- Lab number
- TO-2019
- Material dated
- caribou bone collagen; collagène osseux de caribou
- Taxa dated
- Rangifer tarandus antler (407 mg; id. by A.J. Sutcliffe)
- Locality
- 270 m asl, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 39 E/11
- Submitter
- A.J. Sutcliffe
- Date submitted
- April 11, 2001
- Normalized Age
- 2030 ± 50
- Significance
- palaeobiology; paléobiologie
- Context
- surface, Cape Herschel
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Rangifer tarandus
- Comments
- SdFh-VP, Cape Herschel: The shed antler of a Peary caribou had lain on the ground surface for two millennia when it was found by Weston Blake, Jr., and R.J.H. Richardson. In the polar desert environment of Cape Herschel this antler provided an unusual nutrient source and was colonized by a remarkably rich biota that was meticulously analyzed by Antony Sutcliffe and his colleagues at the Natural History Museum in London. Portions of the antler that were protected from weathering by mosses were remarkably well preserved, and it must be considered possible that this antler could have been used as a raw material to make a tool many centuries after its deposition.