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Canada / NU / SfFj-20 (Hearth) / GSC-3596
- Lab number
- GSC-3596
- Material dated
- conifer charcoal; charbon de conifère
- Taxa dated
- Picea sp. or Larix sp. (id. by R.J. Mott)
- Locality
- 300 m inland from the present shore of Johan Peninsula, 27-29 m asl, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 39 E/13
- Submitter
- P. Schledermann
- Date submitted
- October 31, 0097
- Measured Age
- 3450 ± 90
- Normalized Age
- 3450 ± 90
- δ13C (per mil)
- -25.0
- Significance
- Palaeoeskimo, AST; Paléoesquimau, Microlithique de l'Arctique
- Context
- driftwood beneath boiling stones in a hearth feature
- Additional information
- 3.7 g after pretreatment, mixed with dead gas for counting.
- Comments
- SfFj-20, Hearth: An Arctic Small Tool tradition hearth feature is located near a cliff outcrop which would have been accessible to the sea only at a time when the coastline was submerged 20-25 m below its present level. The sheltered hearth probably reflects summer season activity. Numerous pieces of charcoal greater than 1 cm in length were determined to be coniferous wood, and no willow was included in GSC-3596.