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Canada / NU / SgFm-16 (Bight) / TO-1556
- Lab number
- TO-1556
- Material dated
- muskox bone collagen; collagène osseux de boeuf musqué
- Taxa dated
- Ovibos moschatus (id. by M. Cummings)
- Locality
- on a small gravel terrace on Knud Peninsula, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 39 G/01
- Submitter
- P. Schledermann
- Date submitted
- July 20, 0098
- Normalized Age
- 3840 ± 70
- Significance
- Palaeoeskimo, Saqqaq; Paléoesquimau
- Context
- interior of dwelling feature 2, 19-20 m asl
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Lepus arcticus, Alopex lagopus, Ursus maritimus, Gulo gulo, Phoca hispida, Phoca groenlandica, Erignathus barbatus, Rangifer tarandus, Ovibos moschatus; Aves, Chen hyperboreus, Branta bernicla, Somateria spectabilis, Falco rusticolus, Sterna paradisaea, Carduelis hornemanni
- Additional information
- AMS date
- 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.