Evidence for Human Modification of a Late Pleistocene Bison (Bison sp.) Bone from the Klondike District, Yukon Territory, Canada
A 31 000 BP bison limb bone from Nugget Gulch near Dawson City, Yukon, shows a "ring crack" considered to be a human-made impact mark resulting in exposure of marrow. This bone is approximately contemporaneous with wolf, horse, and Dall sheep specimens found on an ancient Mid-Wisconsinan t...
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description | A 31 000 BP bison limb bone from Nugget Gulch near Dawson City, Yukon, shows a "ring crack" considered to be a human-made impact mark resulting in exposure of marrow. This bone is approximately contemporaneous with wolf, horse, and Dall sheep specimens found on an ancient Mid-Wisconsinan terrain surface at this locality. Similar ring cracks, also interpreted as human-made, have been noted on late-glacial bison bones from Engigstciak, Yukon, and Lost Chicken Creek, Alaska. Un os de membre de bison datant de 31 000 ans av. J.-C. et provenant de Nugget Gulch près de Dawson City au Yukon, montre une "fissure circulaire" que l'on considère être la marque d'un impact donné par un être humain pour mettre la moelle à nu. Cet os est à peu près contemporain de spécimens provenant de loups, de chevaux et de mouflons de Dall trouvés au même endroit, à la surface d'un ancien terrain datant du milieu du wisconsinien. On a remarqué des fissures circulaires semblables, que l'on a aussi interprétées comme découlant d'une action humaine, sur des os de bison du tardiglaciaire trouvés à Engigstciak au Yukon et à Lost Chicken Creek en Alaska. |
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spelling | ftunivcalgaryojs:oai:journalhosting.ucalgary.ca:article/63755 2025-06-15T14:14:45+00:00 Evidence for Human Modification of a Late Pleistocene Bison (Bison sp.) Bone from the Klondike District, Yukon Territory, Canada Harington, C.R. Morlan, Richard E. 2002-01-01 application/pdf https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/63755 eng eng The Arctic Institute of North America https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/63755/47690 https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/63755 ARCTIC; Vol. 55 No. 2 (2002): June: 109–213; 143-147 1923-1245 0004-0843 bison Bison priscus Yukon Territory Late Pleistocene bone fracture humans Territoire du Yukon pléistocène tardif fracture osseuse êtres humains info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion research-article 2002 ftunivcalgaryojs 2025-05-27T03:29:43Z A 31 000 BP bison limb bone from Nugget Gulch near Dawson City, Yukon, shows a "ring crack" considered to be a human-made impact mark resulting in exposure of marrow. This bone is approximately contemporaneous with wolf, horse, and Dall sheep specimens found on an ancient Mid-Wisconsinan terrain surface at this locality. Similar ring cracks, also interpreted as human-made, have been noted on late-glacial bison bones from Engigstciak, Yukon, and Lost Chicken Creek, Alaska. Un os de membre de bison datant de 31 000 ans av. J.-C. et provenant de Nugget Gulch près de Dawson City au Yukon, montre une "fissure circulaire" que l'on considère être la marque d'un impact donné par un être humain pour mettre la moelle à nu. Cet os est à peu près contemporain de spécimens provenant de loups, de chevaux et de mouflons de Dall trouvés au même endroit, à la surface d'un ancien terrain datant du milieu du wisconsinien. On a remarqué des fissures circulaires semblables, que l'on a aussi interprétées comme découlant d'une action humaine, sur des os de bison du tardiglaciaire trouvés à Engigstciak au Yukon et à Lost Chicken Creek en Alaska. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Dawson Alaska Yukon Unknown Canada Dawson City ENVELOPE(-139.433,-139.433,64.060,64.060) Gulch ENVELOPE(-61.483,-61.483,-63.997,-63.997) Nugget Gulch ENVELOPE(-139.293,-139.293,63.883,63.883) Yukon ARCTIC 55 2 |
spellingShingle | bison Bison priscus Yukon Territory Late Pleistocene bone fracture humans Territoire du Yukon pléistocène tardif fracture osseuse êtres humains Harington, C.R. Morlan, Richard E. Evidence for Human Modification of a Late Pleistocene Bison (Bison sp.) Bone from the Klondike District, Yukon Territory, Canada |
title | Evidence for Human Modification of a Late Pleistocene Bison (Bison sp.) Bone from the Klondike District, Yukon Territory, Canada |
title_full | Evidence for Human Modification of a Late Pleistocene Bison (Bison sp.) Bone from the Klondike District, Yukon Territory, Canada |
title_fullStr | Evidence for Human Modification of a Late Pleistocene Bison (Bison sp.) Bone from the Klondike District, Yukon Territory, Canada |
title_full_unstemmed | Evidence for Human Modification of a Late Pleistocene Bison (Bison sp.) Bone from the Klondike District, Yukon Territory, Canada |
title_short | Evidence for Human Modification of a Late Pleistocene Bison (Bison sp.) Bone from the Klondike District, Yukon Territory, Canada |
title_sort | evidence for human modification of a late pleistocene bison (bison sp.) bone from the klondike district, yukon territory, canada |
topic | bison Bison priscus Yukon Territory Late Pleistocene bone fracture humans Territoire du Yukon pléistocène tardif fracture osseuse êtres humains |
topic_facet | bison Bison priscus Yukon Territory Late Pleistocene bone fracture humans Territoire du Yukon pléistocène tardif fracture osseuse êtres humains |
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