Late Pleistocene palaeoenvironments, archaeology, and indicators of a glacial refugium on northern Vancouver Island, Canada

• Main Author: Hebda, Christopher Franklin George
• Other Authors: Mackie, Quentin, McLaren, Duncan Stewart
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: archaeology; palaeoecology; Northwest Coast; pollen; environmental DNA; eDNA; Vancouver Island; Pleistocene; peopling of the Americas; coastal migration; ice-free corridor; refugium; Last Glacial Maximum; Fraser Glaciation; British Columbia; Canada; Pacific; Tundra
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1828/11432

Recent research has revealed human settlement on the Pacific coast of Canada extending back nearly 14,000 years, but much of the late Pleistocene record is unknown due to shifting sea levels, poor understanding of Cordilleran ice extent, and limited research on the biota of the coast during this tim...