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Canada / NU / SdFi-4 (Blake) / GSC-3310
- Lab number
- GSC-3310
- Material dated
- charred organic matter; matière organique carbonisée
- Locality
- on the main area of raised beaches on the north side of the Cape Herschel Peninsula, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 39 E/11
- Submitter
- P. Schledermann
- Date submitted
- July 20, 0098
- Measured Age
- 4240 ± 80
- Normalized Age
- 4340 ± 80
- δ13C (per mil)
- -19.3
- Significance
- Palaeoeskimo, AST; Paléoesquimau, Microlithique de l'Arctique
- Context
- component 2, beneath a sandstone slab near feature 1, 20.9 m asl
- Additional information
- The sample may have contained charred bone, wood, and possibly melted blubber or other animal debris.
- Comments
- SdFi-7, Blake: Judging from the 13C ratio, GSC-3349 probably consisted of terrestrial mammal bone. Schledermann gives the Borden designation as SdFh-4.