ARCTIC Paleoecological Significance of Mummified Remains of Pleistocene Horses from the North Slope of the Brooks Range, Alaska

• Main Authors: R. Dale Guthrie, Samuel Stoker
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1990
• Subjects: Arctic; Last Peak; Yar; Brooks Range; north slope; Alaska
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.511.2927; http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic43-3-267.pdf

ABSTRACT. Radiocarbon dates from horse fossils found on the North Slope of Alaska show that horses did live there during the last peak glacial (Duvanny Yar Interval, Marine Isotope Stage 2). Some previous paleoecological studies have assumed the region’s climate was too extreme for large mammals dur...