Late Pleistocene heather vole, Phenacomys , on the North Pacific Coast of North America: environments, local extinctions, and archaeological implications

• Published in: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences
• Main Author: Steffen, Martina L.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Science Publishing 2022
• Subjects: General Earth and Planetary Sciences; Canada; Pacific; British Columbia; Ice Sheet; Alaska
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/cjes-2021-0116; https://cdnsciencepub.com/doi/full-xml/10.1139/cjes-2021-0116; https://cdnsciencepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/cjes-2021-0116

Phenacomys cf. intermedius, the heather vole, is known from three late Pleistocene and early Holocene localities on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada, where they are absent today. This study reports the heather vole specimens from one of these sites, P2 Cave, and provides a human behavioura...