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Canada / NU / SfFk-6 (Tusk) / GSC-3362
- Lab number
- GSC-3362
- Material dated
- charcoal; charbon de bois
- Taxa dated
- (22.0 g)
- Locality
- on Skraeling Island in Alexandria Fiord, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 39 E/13
- Submitter
- P. Schledermann
- Date submitted
- October 31, 0097
- Measured Age
- 4240 ± 60
- Normalized Age
- 4250 ± 60
- δ13C (per mil)
- -24.5
- Significance
- Palaeoeskimo, AST; Paléoesquimau, Microlithique de l'Arctique
- Stratigraphic component
- Upper
- Context
- driftwood?, upper component, sand beneath boulders on a beach terrace, 29 m asl
- Additional information
- This date is probably too old by several centuries.
- Comments
- SfFk-6, Tusk: The site is named for a partially buried walrus tusk, dated by RL-834, which may or may not be associated with artifacts of the Arctic Small Tool tradition found nearby. Because of this questionable association, a search for charred materials in 1981 produced a sample of charcoal (GSC-3362) that is thought to be derived from driftwood and therefore provides a maximum limit for the age of the artifacts.