Radiocarbon Dates on Some Quaternary Mammals and Artifacts from Northern North America

Nine radiocarbon dates on five genera of Quaternary mammals from northern North America are discussed. Of particular interest are: (a) a 29,000-year-old artifact from the Yukon Territory; (b) the first evidence that steppe mammoths (Mammathus columbi or M. armeniacus) occupied eastern Beringia durin...

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Published in:ARCTIC
Main Author: Harington, C.R.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1980
Subjects:
Archaeology
Bears
Glacial epoch
Mammals
Mammoths
Muskoxen
North American bison
Palaeontology
Quaternary period
Radiocarbon dating
Saigas
Alaska
Canadian Arctic
Old Crow River region
Yukon
Arctic
Crow River
Northwest Territories
Old Crow River
Old Crow
ovibos moschatus
Tundra
Beringia
Online Access:https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/65650
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Summary:Nine radiocarbon dates on five genera of Quaternary mammals from northern North America are discussed. Of particular interest are: (a) a 29,000-year-old artifact from the Yukon Territory; (b) the first evidence that steppe mammoths (Mammathus columbi or M. armeniacus) occupied eastern Beringia during the peak of the Wisconsin glaciation; (c) dates indicating that saiga antelopes (Saiga tatarica) and Yukon short-faced bears (Arctodus simus yukonensis) occupied the Yukon-Alaska region in mid-Wisconsin time; (d) dates indicating that bison (Bison sp.) lived near the arctic coast of the Northwest Territories, and tundra muskoxen (Ovibos moschatus) lived in the western Yukon in late postglacial time; and (e) dates suggesting that tundra muskoxen have occupied the central Canadian Arctic Islands for the last 7000 years.

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