A preboreal elk (Alces alces L., 1758) antler from south-eastern Norway
In 1895 a shed elk antler was found in a mire on a farm near Fluberg, in Søndre Land municipality in south-eastern Norway. The antler was first radiocarbon dated in 2008 and yielded the age 9,100 ± 50 BP (8,340 – 8,250 BC), which is the oldest dated elk remain from Norway. Elk (Alces alces L., 1758)...
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ftunivbergen:oai:bora.uib.no:1956/12502 2023-05-15T13:12:52+02:00 A preboreal elk (Alces alces L., 1758) antler from south-eastern Norway Grøndahl, Finn Audun Hufthammer, Anne Karin Dahl, Svein Olaf Rosvold, Jørgen 2016-04-08T07:16:02Z application/pdf https://hdl.handle.net/1956/12502 https://doi.org/10.5324/fn.v30i0.629 eng eng Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NTNU University Museum urn:issn:1891-5396 https://hdl.handle.net/1956/12502 https://doi.org/10.5324/fn.v30i0.629 cristin:515690 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Copyright the authors Mammalia immigration VDP::Matematikk og naturvitenskap: 400::Zoologiske og botaniske fag: 480::Systematisk zoologi: 487 VDP::Mathematics and natural scienses: 400::Zoology and botany: 480::Systematic zoology: 487 Peer reviewed Journal article 2016 ftunivbergen https://doi.org/10.5324/fn.v30i0.629 2023-03-14T17:44:33Z In 1895 a shed elk antler was found in a mire on a farm near Fluberg, in Søndre Land municipality in south-eastern Norway. The antler was first radiocarbon dated in 2008 and yielded the age 9,100 ± 50 BP (8,340 – 8,250 BC), which is the oldest dated elk remain from Norway. Elk (Alces alces L., 1758) are a pioneer colonising species; they were already established south of the ice front in Denmark and southern Sweden in the Late Glacial period. This antler shows that the species had arrived in south-eastern Norway in the late Preboreal period. This could tie in with the earliest arrival of elk once the colonizing routes from southern Sweden were established 9,300-9,200 BP. The antler is clearly of the palmate morph, and strongly resembles elk antlers found in Denmark and southern Sweden from the Late Glacial and Early Holocene periods. This find also reveals that the vegetation at the end of the Preboreal period suited large herbivores such as elk publishedVersion Article in Journal/Newspaper Alces alces University of Bergen: Bergen Open Research Archive (BORA-UiB) Fluberg ENVELOPE(25.166,25.166,70.068,70.068) Norway Fauna norvegica 30 0 |
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Mammalia immigration VDP::Matematikk og naturvitenskap: 400::Zoologiske og botaniske fag: 480::Systematisk zoologi: 487 VDP::Mathematics and natural scienses: 400::Zoology and botany: 480::Systematic zoology: 487 |
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Mammalia immigration VDP::Matematikk og naturvitenskap: 400::Zoologiske og botaniske fag: 480::Systematisk zoologi: 487 VDP::Mathematics and natural scienses: 400::Zoology and botany: 480::Systematic zoology: 487 |
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In 1895 a shed elk antler was found in a mire on a farm near Fluberg, in Søndre Land municipality in south-eastern Norway. The antler was first radiocarbon dated in 2008 and yielded the age 9,100 ± 50 BP (8,340 – 8,250 BC), which is the oldest dated elk remain from Norway. Elk (Alces alces L., 1758) are a pioneer colonising species; they were already established south of the ice front in Denmark and southern Sweden in the Late Glacial period. This antler shows that the species had arrived in south-eastern Norway in the late Preboreal period. This could tie in with the earliest arrival of elk once the colonizing routes from southern Sweden were established 9,300-9,200 BP. The antler is clearly of the palmate morph, and strongly resembles elk antlers found in Denmark and southern Sweden from the Late Glacial and Early Holocene periods. This find also reveals that the vegetation at the end of the Preboreal period suited large herbivores such as elk publishedVersion |
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Grøndahl, Finn Audun Hufthammer, Anne Karin Dahl, Svein Olaf Rosvold, Jørgen |
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Grøndahl, Finn Audun Hufthammer, Anne Karin Dahl, Svein Olaf Rosvold, Jørgen |
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A preboreal elk (Alces alces L., 1758) antler from south-eastern Norway |
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A preboreal elk (Alces alces L., 1758) antler from south-eastern Norway |
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A preboreal elk (Alces alces L., 1758) antler from south-eastern Norway |
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A preboreal elk (Alces alces L., 1758) antler from south-eastern Norway |
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A preboreal elk (Alces alces L., 1758) antler from south-eastern Norway |
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preboreal elk (alces alces l., 1758) antler from south-eastern norway |
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Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NTNU University Museum |
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2016 |
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https://hdl.handle.net/1956/12502 https://doi.org/10.5324/fn.v30i0.629 |
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ENVELOPE(25.166,25.166,70.068,70.068) |
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Fluberg Norway |
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Fluberg Norway |
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Alces alces |
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Alces alces |
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Copyright the authors |
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