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- Lab number
- GSC-2924
- Material dated
- willow wood; bois de saule
- Taxa dated
- Salix sp. (12.0 g, id. by R.J. Mott)
- 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 28, 0097
- Measured Age
- 700 ± 70
- Normalized Age
- 640 ± 70
- δ13C (per mil)
- -28.8
- Significance
- Neoeskimo, Thule, Ruin Island; Néoesquimau, Thuléen
- Stratigraphic component
- House 15
- Context
- House 15 floor, 10-11 m asl
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia 297, Lepus arcticus 1, Canis sp 206-5, Alopex lagopus 5-1, Ursus maritimus 39-3, Odobenus rosmarus 176-7, Phoca sp 1439-24, Erignathus sp? 56-4, Rangifer tarandus 2-1, Ovibos moschatus 22-2, Cetacea 97; Aves, Branta bernicla, Somateria mollissima, Somateria spectabilis, Larus hyperboreus, Larus thayeri, 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.