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- Lab number
- GSC-3197
- Material dated
- willow wood; bois de saule
- Taxa dated
- Salix sp. 6 twigs, most lacking bark (10.0 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
- 860 ± 50
- Normalized Age
- 810 ± 50
- δ13C (per mil)
- -28.4
- Significance
- Neoeskimo, Thule, Ruin Island; Néoesquimau, Thuléen
- Stratigraphic component
- House 6
- Context
- House 6 floor, kitchen tunnel, 50-60 cm depth, 9 m asl
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia 12, Lepus arcticus 2-1, Canis sp 21-1, Alopex lagopus 24-2, Ursus maritimus 13-1, Odobenus rosmarus 29-1, Phoca sp 563-8, Erignathus sp? 4-1, Ovibos moschatus 3-1, Cetacea 9
- 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.