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

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Authors: Guthrie, R. Dale, Stoker, Samuel
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1990
• Subjects: horse; Pleistocene; paleoecology; Alaska; paleontology; cheval; pleistocène; paléoécologie; paléontologie; Last Peak; Yar; Arctic; Brooks Range; north slope
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/64675

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 during t...