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Lab number
GSC-3108
Material dated
walrus bone collagen; collagène osseux de morse
Taxa dated
Odobenus rosmarus femur (247.8 g, id. by C.R. Harington)
Locality
about 25 km north of Skraeling Island on the north coast of Knud Peninsula, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut
Map sheet
39 G/01
Submitter
P. Schledermann
Date submitted
October 30, 0097
Measured Age
1150 ± 70
Normalized Age
1200 ± 70
δ13C (per mil)
-22.1
Significance
Neoeskimo, Thule, Post-Ruin Island; Néoesquimau, Thuléen
Stratigraphic component
House 1
Context
House 1, cooking area, from right-hand corner, immersed in fatty debris, 8.35 m asl
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Odobenus rosmarus
Comments
SgFm-4, Eskimobyen: The site was utilized throughout the time span of the Thule culture occupation of eastern Ellesmere Island except perhaps for the very latest period. House ruins are clustered in four grassy gullies separated by low rock outcrops. Below the winter houses, there are caches, a fox trap, and several kayak and umiak stands near the shoreline. There are also five bowhead whale crania on or near the site. Of 27 house ruins, at least two (Houses 25 and 26) are related to the Ruin Island phase, the others belonging later in the sequence. Except for House 3, where a date on willow wood agrees with dates on mountain avens, it appears that willow often produces older dates than other plant species associated with it in this region. This may result from dead, dry willow having been selected for fuel whereas fresh mountain avens and Arctic heather was selected for bedding material. Schledermann (1980) describes Norse artifacts from Houses 1 and 3. BM-1753 dated a surface find to establish the rate of bone weathering in the Arctic environment.

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