CARD fuzzes location data for public visitors to the database. Accessing CARD's full capabilities requires an account available only to researchers at accredited institutions.
Lab number
TO-8511
Field number
99-DCA-300
Material dated
whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
Taxa dated
Balaena mysticetus rib (4.6 g, id. by A.S. Dyke)
Locality
Halcro Point, east side of the mouth of Darnley Bay and northeast of Paulatuk, Northwest Territories
Map sheet
97 D/13
Submitter
A.S. Dyke
Date submitted
February 26, 2002
Normalized Age
740 ± 60
Significance
palaeobiology; paléobiologie
Context
near a Thule house, ca. 7 m asl, but not definitely from occupation remains
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
Additional information
Dense cortical bone was isolated by chiselling off the outer surface and grinding off the interior porous tissue.
Comments
NkRj-VP (99-DCA-300): A bowhead whale rib fragment was collected from the sloping surface at the top of a 7 m high bank overlooking the beach. Bowhead remains here are mostly buried. The tip of the collected rib was protruding from the soil. Two skull bases were pulled from the sod. The collector noted "evidence of oil, black and coal-like, a few inches thick." Lois Harwood later reported that her husband said the sample came from a place "where people used to live." The sample was supplied by Lois A. Harwood, Stock Assessment Biologist, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Inuvik, NWT and was collected by her husband. Two skulls were seen at this site. The sample consisted of a fragment of a small bowhead rib, likely one of the backmost ribs, measuring 46 cm (tip to tip) x 5 cm x 3 cm. This is the westernmost Holocene bowhead dated from the Canadian Arctic.

References