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- Lab number
- S-2663
- Field number
- 84-DCA-483
- Material dated
- seal bone collagen; collagène osseux de phoque
- Taxa dated
- Phoca sp. (id. by D.E.C. Green)
- Locality
- 25.4 m asl, Barrow Strait, northeastern Russell Island, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 68 E/02
- Submitter
- D.E.C. Green
- Date submitted
- August 21, 0098
- Measured Age
- 620 ± 235
- Normalized Age
- 780 ± 235
- δ13C (per mil)
- -15.0
- Significance
- palaeobiology, anomalous, young; paléobiologie
- Context
- gravel, well covered with moss and humus-stained, overlooking Barrow Strait
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Phoca sp
- Comments
- QaLf-VP: According to A.S. Dyke, S-2663 is too young to relate to a relative sea level of 25 metres elevation, which should be >5.0 ka BP. It seems likely that the bones were contaminated by plant material which, along with the small bulk sample size, suggests that this result should be rejected.