Preliminary investigation of a late Wisconsinan fauna from K1 cave, Queen Charlotte Islands (Haida Gwaii), Canada

2004 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 105-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolyn L. Ramsey ◽  
Paul A. Griffiths ◽  
Daryl W. Fedje ◽  
Rebecca J. Wigen ◽  
Quentin Mackie
Keyword(s):  
Late Pleistocene ◽  
Environmental Conditions ◽  
Preliminary Investigation ◽  
Skeletal Remains ◽  
Human Migration ◽  
Early Holocene ◽  
Haida Gwaii ◽  
Queen Charlotte Islands ◽  
Late Wisconsinan ◽  
Early Human

Recent investigations of a limestone solution cave on the Queen Charlotte Islands (Haida Gwaii) have yielded skeletal remains of fauna including late Pleistocene and early Holocene bears, one specimen of which dates to ca. 14,400 14C yr B.P. This new fossil evidence sheds light on early postglacial environmental conditions in this archipelago, with implications for the timing of early human migration into the Americas.

Late Pleistocene coastal paleogeography of the Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia, Canada, and its implications for terrestrial biogeography and early postglacial human occupation

2003 ◽  
Vol 40 (12) ◽  
pp. 1755-1766 ◽  
Author(s):  
Renée Hetherington ◽  
J Vaughn Barrie ◽  
Robert GB Reid ◽  
Roger MacLeod ◽  
Dan J Smith ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Late Pleistocene ◽  
Late Quaternary ◽  
Glacial Refugia ◽  
Spatial Modelling ◽  
Early Holocene ◽  
Human Occupation ◽  
Land Bridge ◽  
Sea Levels ◽  
Queen Charlotte Islands

Molluscs, sediment lithology, and published sub-bottom profiles are used to deduce sea levels, outline the influence of glacially induced crustal displacement, and reconstruct the paleoenvironment of the northeast Pacific late Quaternary coastline. Geo-spatial modelling shows subaerially exposed land that could have been inhabited by plants and animals, and also coastally migrating early North American peoples. Ice-free terrain, present by at least 13 790 ± 150 14C years BP, a land bridge, and edible molluscs are identified. Queen Charlotte Islands (QCI) late Pleistocene coastal paleogeography may assist in explaining the biogeography of many terrestrial plant and animal species along the broader northeastern Pacific margin and provide evidence for researchers seeking late Pleistocene – early Holocene glacial refugia. Late Pleistocene – early Holocene coastlines that are not drowned and that may harbour early archaeological sites are identified along the western QCI, where migrants probably first travelled and the westernmost British Columbia mainland, where the effects of glacial ice were reduced.

Revisiting the chronology and environmental conditions for the accretion of late Pleistocene-early Holocene Pampean loess (Argentina)

2019 ◽  
Vol 213 ◽  
pp. 105-119 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriela Torre ◽  
Diego M. Gaiero ◽  
André Oliveira Sawakuchi ◽  
Ian del Río ◽  
Renata Coppo
Keyword(s):  
Late Pleistocene ◽  
Environmental Conditions ◽  
Early Holocene

Holocene Changes in Tropical Wind Intensity and Rainfall: Evidence from Southeast Ghana

1981 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 201-220 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. R. Talbot
Keyword(s):  
West Africa ◽  
Late Pleistocene ◽  
Environmental Conditions ◽  
Early Holocene ◽  
Pleistocene Glaciation ◽  
Tropical Africa ◽  
Dune Ridge ◽  
Wind Intensity ◽  
Accra Plains ◽  
Aeolian Sands

AbstractRemnants of a fixed aeolian dune ridge occur along the southeast coast of Ghana, just behind the present shoreline. Aeolian sands also cover extensive areas of the Accra Plains. No dunes are present here, the sands mainly occurring as sheets which blanket an early Holocene landscape. The sediments are of mid-Holocene age and were deposited during the interval 4500 B.P.–3800 yr B.P., when the southwesterly winds were stronger than they are at present and much of tropical Africa seems to have been subject to marked aridity. The onset of drier, windier conditions around 4500 yr B.P. brought to an end the more equable climates than had characterized much of West Africa during the earlier Holocene. Aridity, intensified winds, and desert expansion between 4500 and 3800 yr B.P. parallel environmental conditions in tropical continental areas at the height of the Late Pleistocene glaciation.

Late Pleistocene climate drivers of early human migration

Nature ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 538 (7623) ◽  
pp. 92-95 ◽  
Author(s):  
Axel Timmermann ◽  
Tobias Friedrich
Keyword(s):  
Late Pleistocene ◽  
Human Migration ◽  
Pleistocene Climate ◽  
Early Human

Spatial variability of Late Pleistocene–Early Holocene soil formation and its relation to early human paleoecology in Northwest Mexico

2015 ◽  
Vol 365 ◽  
pp. 135-149 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tamara Cruz-y-Cruz ◽  
Guadalupe Sánchez ◽  
Sergey Sedov ◽  
Alejando Terrazas-Mata ◽  
Elizabeth Solleiro-Rebolledo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Variability ◽  
Late Pleistocene ◽  
Soil Formation ◽  
Early Holocene ◽  
Northwest Mexico ◽  
Early Human

Late Quaternary Mammalian Zoogeography of Eastern Washington

1983 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 360-373 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Lee Lyman ◽  
Stephanie D. Livingston
Keyword(s):  
Late Pleistocene ◽  
Environmental Conditions ◽  
Late Quaternary ◽  
Ovis Canadensis ◽  
Early Holocene ◽  
Antilocapra Americana ◽  
Columbia Basin ◽  
Effective Precipitation ◽  
Ecological Preferences ◽  
Eastern Washington

The late Quaternary mammalian zoogeographic history of eastern Washington as revealed by archaeological and paleontological research conforms to a set of past environmental conditions inferred from botanical data. During the relatively cool and moist late Pleistocene and early Holocene, Cervus cf. elaphus, Ovis canadensis, Vulpes vulpes, Martes americana, Alopex lagopus, and perhaps Rangifer sp., taxa with ecological preferences for mesic steppe habitats, were present in the now xeric Columbia Basin. As the climate became progressively warmer and drier during the late Pleistocene and early Holocene, Antilocapra americana, Onychomys leucogaster, Spermophilus townsendii, and Neotoma cinerea, taxa with ecological preferences for xeric steppe habitats, appear in the Columbia Basin. Bison sp. and Taxidea taxus may have been present in eastern Washington for the last 20,000 yr. Middle and late Holocene records for Oreamnos americanus, Spermophilus columbianus, S. townsendii, Lagurus curtatus, and Urocyon cinereoargenteus in central eastern Washington suggest fluctuations in the ranges of these taxa that conform to a middle Holocene period of less effective precipitation and a ca. 3500-yr-old period of more effective precipitation before essentially modern environmental conditions prevailed.

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