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Canada / NU / SgFm-6 (Ridge) / GSC-2827
- Lab number
- GSC-2827
- Material dated
- charred bone collagen; collagène osseux carbonisé
- Locality
- on Knud Peninsula, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 39 G/01
- Submitter
- P. Schledermann
- Date submitted
- October 31, 0097
- Measured Age
- 2690 ± 60
- Normalized Age
- 2710 ± 60
- δ13C (per mil)
- -23.4
- Significance
- Palaeoeskimo, Predorset; Paléoesquimau; Prédorsétien
- Context
- several small concentrations within dwelling feature 2, 20 m asl
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Lepus arcticus, Alopex lagopus, Odobenus rosmarus, Phoca sp; Aves, Somateria sp
- Additional information
- 22 g after pretreatment, NaOH leach omitted.
- Comments
- SgFm-6, Ridge: The dwelling feature produced a large number of diagnostic artifacts indicating a late Predorset period of occupation. The submitted sample included charred wood, charred bone and uncharred bone, from which charred bone was selected for GSC-2827. The bone was suspected to represent sea mammals, the principal economic resource of the area, but the 13C ratio suggests terrestrial mammal origin. Charred willow dated by TO-1638 gave an older age. Both dates are outside the 900-1100 BC range suggested by cross-references to other dated sites.