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- Lab number
- GSC-2938
- Material dated
- willow wood; bois de saule
- Taxa dated
- Salix sp. 2 pieces, with bark (11.2 g, id. by L.D. Farley-Gill)
- 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
- 840 ± 60
- Normalized Age
- 760 ± 60
- δ13C (per mil)
- -30.5
- Significance
- Neoeskimo, Thule, Ruin Island; Néoesquimau, Thuléen
- Stratigraphic component
- House 10
- Context
- House 10 floor, 7-8 m asl
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia 62, Canis sp 40-2, Alopex lagopus 6-1, Ursus maritimus 10-2, Odobenus rosmarus 13-2, Phoca sp 66-3, Erignathus sp? 9-1, Ovibos moschatus 1, Cetacea 17; Aves, Larus hyperboreus
- 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.