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- Lab number
- GSC-3174
- Material dated
- willow wood; bois de saule
- Taxa dated
- Salix sp. twigs with bark (9.8 g, id. by R.J. Mott)
- Locality
- on Skraeling Island off the north coast of the Johan Peninsula, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 39 E/13
- Submitter
- P. Schledermann
- Date submitted
- October 28, 0097
- Measured Age
- 600 ± 60
- Normalized Age
- 550 ± 60
- δ13C (per mil)
- -27.7
- Significance
- Neoeskimo, Thule, Ruin Island; Néoesquimau, Thuléen
- Stratigraphic component
- House 8
- Context
- House 8 floor, ceremonial house, 5-6 m asl
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia 82, Canis sp 6-2, Alopex lagopus 2-1, Ursus maritimus 2-1, Odobenus rosmarus 36-2, Phoca sp 537-17, Erignathus sp? 10-1, Ovibos moschatus 12-1, Cetacea 30; Aves, Somateria spectabilis, Cepphus grylle
- Comments
- SfFk-4, Skraeling Island: It consists of 23 winter house ruins attributed to the Ruin Island phase of the Thule continuum. Schledermann (1980) describes Norse artifacts from this site.