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Canada / NU / SfFl-2 (Digarmulen) / GSC-2576
- Lab number
- GSC-2576
- Material dated
- spruce charcoal; charbon d' épinette
- Taxa dated
- Picea sp. (id. by L.D. Farley-Gill and R.J. Mott)
- Locality
- on a gravel terrace 22 m asl, near Digarmulen Point, Thorvald Peninsula, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 39 E/13
- Submitter
- P. Schledermann
- Date submitted
- October 31, 0097
- Measured Age
- 4390 ± 80
- Normalized Age
- 4390 ± 80
- δ13C (per mil)
- -25.1
- Significance
- Palaeoeskimo, AST; Paléoesquimau, Microlithique de l'Arctique
- Context
- driftwood in a stone-covered hearth feature
- Additional information
- 2.5 g after pretreatment, mixed with dead gas for counting.
- Comments
- SfFl-2, Digarmulen: The sampled hearth feature was the first located evidence of early Arctic Small Tool tradition in this area. The site elevation and date from GSC-2576 are fairly close to another ASTt sample from the region (GSC-3261) with the driftwood supplying a maximum limit for the age of the site. A charred bone sample (GSC-2646) from the Digarmulen hearth was thought to consist of sea mammal bone, although the 13C ratio suggests that it represents a terrestrial mammal.