An early Holocene caribou antler from northern Ellesmere Island, Canadian Arctic Archipelago

• Published in: Boreas
• Main Authors: STEWART, THOMAS G., ENGLAND, JOHN
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 1986
• Subjects: Arctic; Canadian Arctic Archipelago; Clements Markham; Clements Markham Inlet; Ellesmere Island; Markham; Arctic Archipelago
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1502-3885.1986.tb00739.x; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fj.1502-3885.1986.tb00739.x; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1502-3885.1986.tb00739.x

During the last glaciation of northern Ellesmere Island many areas remained ice‐free. A caribou antler from deglacial‐marine sediments in Clements Markham Inlet dates 8,415 ± 135 B.P. (S‐2501). If locally derived it places caribou at the northern limit of their contemporary range at the onset of deg...