AMS Dating of the Late Pleistocene Mammals at the Colorado Creek Site, Interior Western Alaska

• Main Authors: Reuther, Joshua D, Rogers, Jason S, Rousseau, Julie, Druckenmiller, Patrick S
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Radiocarbon 2015
• Subjects: mammoths; megafauna; Beringia; Colorado Creek; Alaska
• Online Access: https://journals.uair.arizona.edu/index.php/radiocarbon/article/view/18436

The Colorado Creek section of Alaska is an important paleontological site first excavated and reported on in the early 1980s and 1990s. The remains of two individual mammoths (the “Upper” and “Lower”), and elements of horse, bison, and caribou make this a unique faunal assemblage for a region in int...