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- Lab number
- GSC-3003
- Material dated
- plant remains; restes de plantes
- Taxa dated
- Cassiope tetragona (15.0 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
- 830 ± 50
- Normalized Age
- 790 ± 50
- δ13C (per mil)
- -27.8
- Significance
- Neoeskimo, Thule, Ruin Island; Néoesquimau, Thuléen
- Stratigraphic component
- House 22
- Context
- House 22 floor, 9-10 m asl
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia 326, Lepus arcticus 1, Canis sp 128-3, Alopex lagopus 381-7, Ursus maritimus 33-2, Odobenus rosmarus 82-2, Phoca sp 140-4, Erignathus sp? 4-1, Ovibos moschatus 7-2, Cetacea 13; Aves, Gavia stellata, Larus hyperboreus, Larus thayeri
- 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.