Pleistocene Mammals of North America Björn Kurtén Elaine Anderson

BioScience ◽  
1981 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 171-172
Author(s):  
Annalisa Berta
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Pleistocene Mammals

Review of ‘Pleistocene Mammals of North America’ by Björn Kurtén and Elaine Anderson

1981 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 241-241
Author(s):  
John E. Guilday
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Pleistocene Mammals

Blood Residues on Fluted Points from Eastern Beringia

1998 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas H. Loy ◽  
E. James Dixon
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Mammal Species ◽  
Projectile Points ◽  
Human Predation ◽  
Pleistocene Mammals ◽  
Game Hunting ◽  
Biological Methods ◽  
Fluted Points ◽  
First Time ◽  
Big Game Hunting

Blood residues have been microscopically and chemically detected on fluted projectile points from eastern Beringia. From these residues a variety of large mammal species, including mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius), have been identified using biochemical and molecular-biological methods. This is the first time a direct association has been made between the use of fluted projectile points and human predation of extinct fauna and other large Pleistocene mammals in arctic and subarctic North America. This suggests the northern fluted-point assemblages are part of the Paleoindian big-game hunting tradition that was widespread in North America at the close of the Pleistocene.

Archaeological associations with extinct pleistocene mammals in North America

1984 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 213-221 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald K. Grayson
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Pleistocene Mammals

Calibration of mammoth (Mammuthus) dispersal into North America using rare earth elements of Plio-Pleistocene mammals from Florida

2009 ◽  
Vol 71 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruce J. MacFadden ◽  
Richard C. Hulbert
Keyword(s):  
Rare Earth ◽  
North America ◽  
Lower Latitude ◽  
Santa Fe ◽  
Late Pliocene ◽  
Mammalian Faunas ◽  
Fossil Bones ◽  
Santa Fe River ◽  
Pleistocene Mammals ◽  
Land Mammal

AbstractThe first appearance of mammoth (Mammuthus) is currently used to define the beginning of the Irvingtonian North American Land Mammal Age at about 1.4 Ma. Thereafter, mammoth fossils are common and widespread in North America until the end of the Pleistocene. In contrast to this generally accepted biochronology, recent reports have asserted that mammoth occurs in late Pliocene (ca. 2.5 Ma) alluvium from the Santa Fe River of northern Florida. The supposedly contemporaneous late Pliocene fossil assemblage from the Santa Fe River that produced the mammoth specimens actually consists of a mixture of diagnostic Blancan (late Pliocene) and late Rancholabrean (latest Pleistocene) species. Fossil bones and teeth of the two mammalian faunas mixed together along the Santa Fe River have significantly different rare earth element (REE) signatures. The REE signatures of mammoth are indistinguishable from those of Rancholabrean mammals, yet they are different from those of diagnostic Blancan vertebrates from these same temporally mixed faunas of the Santa Fe River. Thus, no evidence for late Pliocene mammoth exists in Florida, and mammoth fossils remain reliable biochronological indicators for Irvingtonian and Rancholabrean terrestrial sequences throughout mid- and lower-latitude North America.

The isotopic ecology of late Pleistocene mammals in North America

1998 ◽  
Vol 152 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 119-138 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul L. Koch ◽  
Kathryn A. Hoppe ◽  
S.David Webb
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Late Pleistocene ◽  
Pleistocene Mammals

Epidemiology of contact dermatitis in North America: 1972

1973 ◽  
Vol 108 (4) ◽  
pp. 537-540 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Contact Dermatitis ◽  
North America
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