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Canada / NU / SfFk-6 (Tusk) / RL-834
- Lab number
- RL-834
- Material dated
- walrus bone collagen; collagène osseux de morse
- Taxa dated
- Odobenus rosmarus tusk
- Locality
- on Skraeling Island in Alexandria Fiord, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 39 E/13
- Submitter
- P. Schledermann
- Date submitted
- October 31, 0097
- Measured Age
- 5390 ± 380
- Normalized Age
- 5550 ± 380
- δ13C (per mil)
- -15.0
- Significance
- palaeobiology; paléobiologie
- Stratigraphic component
- Upper
- Context
- upper component, partially buried on a raised beach terrace, 29 m asl
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Odobenus rosmarus
- Additional information
- This date is probably too old by several centuries. It is assumed that it has not been corrected previously for isotopic fractionation.
- Comments
- SfFk-6, Tusk: The site is named for a partially buried walrus tusk, dated by RL-834, which may or may not be associated with artifacts of the Arctic Small Tool tradition found nearby. Because of this questionable association, a search for charred materials in 1981 produced a sample of charcoal (GSC-3362) that is thought to be derived from driftwood and therefore provides a maximum limit for the age of the artifacts.