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Canada / NU / SfFk-18 (Oldsquaw) / GSC-3406
- Lab number
- GSC-3406
- Material dated
- charred bone collagen; collagène osseux carbonisé
- Locality
- 50 m north of the main site on Skraeling Island, 3-4 m asl, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 39 E/13
- Submitter
- P. Schledermann
- Date submitted
- October 31, 0097
- Measured Age
- 950 ± 50
- Normalized Age
- 980 ± 50
- δ13C (per mil)
- -22.8
- Significance
- Palaeoeskimo, Dorset; Paléoesquimau, Dorsétien
- Context
- feature 5, a hearth in a tent ring about 120 m north of the main site
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Alopex lagopus, Odobenus rosmarus, Phoca sp
- Comments
- SfFk-18, Oldsquaw: It represents the latest evidence of Dorset occupation in the area. Two dates imply that this occupation occurred close in time to the initial Thule Inuit presence in the region. Although Schledermann considered the bone dated by GSC-3406 to be that of a sea mammal, the 13C ratio suggests a terrestrial origin.