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- Lab number
- GSC-3156
- Material dated
- plant remains; restes de plantes
- Taxa dated
- Cassiope tetragona (15.5 g, id. by W. Blake, Jr.)
- Locality
- on Skraeling Island off the north coast of the Johan Peninsula, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 39 E/13
- Submitter
- P. Schledermann
- Date submitted
- October 30, 0097
- Measured Age
- 660 ± 60
- Normalized Age
- 630 ± 60
- δ13C (per mil)
- -26.8
- Significance
- Neoeskimo, Thule, Ruin Island; Néoesquimau, Thuléen
- Stratigraphic component
- House 21
- Context
- House 21, central floor area, 9-10 m asl
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia 155, Canis sp 45-2, Alopex lagopus 274-6, Ursus maritimus 32-2, Odobenus rosmarus 74-4, Phoca sp 401-7, Erignathus sp? 59-5, Ovibos moschatus 2-1, Cetacea 16; Aves, Chen caerulescens, Larus hyperboreus, Alle alle, Corvus corax
- Comments
- SfFk-4, Skraeling Island: It consists of 23 winter house ruins attributed to the Ruin Island phase of the Thule continuum. Schledermann (1980) describes Norse artifacts from this site.