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Canada / NT / NkRh-3 (Pearce Point) / S-3364
- Lab number
- S-3364
- Field number
- CMC-1402
- Material dated
- bear bone collagen; collagène osseux d' ours
- Taxa dated
- Ursus sp. humerus
- Locality
- overlooking the south shore of Amundsen Gulf, 1 m asl, at the northeast corner of Pearce Point Harbour, Arctic coast, Northwest Territories
- Map sheet
- 97 D/14
- Submitter
- W.E. Taylor
- Date submitted
- August 8, 0097
- Measured Age
- 1290 ± 60
- Normalized Age
- 1390 ± 65
- δ13C (per mil)
- -19.0
- Significance
- Neoeskimo, early Thule, anomalous, old; Néoesquimau, Thuléen, anormal, vieux
- Context
- house 4, half embedded in sterile sand beneath the cultural layer
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Ursus sp
- Additional information
- The normalized age assumes that this is a grizzly bear. If it is a polar bear the age would be even older.
- Comments
- NkRh-3, Pearce Point: House 4 is an early Thule component of a small, coastal winter village. While analyzing the vertebrate remains from W.E. Taylor's assemblage from House 4, D.A. Morrison submitted two more radiocarbon samples that produced dates much younger than those obtained by Taylor. It may be noteworthy that Taylor's samples were recovered from below the house floor whereas Morrison's were on or above it.