Table 3.
Rank order of the four most common taxa of the studied sites. aTaxonomic richness (Ntaxa) was given for mammals only
| TAXA | Late Dorset | Ruin Island-phase | Post-Ruin Island-phase | Inughuit | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5a | 6a | 7a | 8a | 10 | 2 | 3 | 5b | 9a | 11a | 12a | 15 | 1 | 11b | 12b | 13 | 4 | 9b | |
| Small terrestrial | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | |||||||
| Large terrestrial | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | |||||||||||||
| Polar bear | 3 | |||||||||||||||||
| Small seals | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | |
| Large seals | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | ||||||||||||||
| Walrus | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 3 |
| Cetacean | 3 | |||||||||||||||||
| Monodontids | 3 | |||||||||||||||||
| (Ntaxa) | 14 | 12 | 7 | 7 | 23 | 10 | 16 | 13 | 16 | 21 | 15 | 12 | 14 | 14 | 11 | 12 | 12 | 17 |
| NISP total | 423 | 8297 | 730 | 286 | 15 237 | 2307 | 1704 | 2444 | 2084 | 5219 | 1234 | 2953 | 1174 | 15 871 | 577 | 9191 | 514 | 19 645 |