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Canada / NU / SgFm-16 (Bight) / GSC-3268
- Lab number
- GSC-3268
- Material dated
- conifer charcoal; charbon de conifère
- Taxa dated
- Picea sp. or Larix sp. (id. by R.J. Mott)
- Locality
- on a small gravel terrace on Knud Peninsula, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 39 G/01
- Submitter
- P. Schledermann
- Date submitted
- October 31, 0097
- Measured Age
- 3770 ± 360
- Normalized Age
- 3790 ± 360
- δ13C (per mil)
- -23.8
- Significance
- Palaeoeskimo, Saqqaq; Paléoesquimau
- Context
- driftwood in dwelling feature 1, small concentrations on the living floor, 21 m asl
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Lepus arcticus, Phoca hispida, Erignathus barbatus, Ovibos moschatus; Aves, Chen hyperboreus, Alle alle
- Additional information
- 0.6 g after pretreatment, mixed with dead gas for counting.
- Comments
- SgFm-16, Bight: It produced a number of diagnostic artifacts indicating a close relationship with the Saqqaq complex of Greenland. The driftwood sample should be considered to provide a maximum limit on the age of the occupation.