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- Lab number
- GSC-3098
- Material dated
- willow wood; bois de saule
- Taxa dated
- Salix sp. (3.5 g, id. by L.D. Farley-Gill)
- 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
- 1000 ± 100
- Normalized Age
- 970 ± 100
- δ13C (per mil)
- -27.3
- Significance
- Neoeskimo, Thule, Ruin Island; Néoesquimau, Thuléen
- Stratigraphic component
- House 3
- Context
- House 3 floor, kitchen area, 15 m asl
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia 347, Lepus arcticus 1, Canis sp 47-1, Alopex lagoppus 7-1, Ursus maritimus 15-1, Odobenus rosmarus 102-3, Phoca sp 226-13, Erignathus sp? 3-1, Ovibos moschatus 5-1, Cetacea 16; Aves, Gavia stellata, Somateria mollissima, Larus hyperboreus
- Additional information
- Mixed with dead gas for counting.
- 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.