FIRST COMPLETE SKULL OF A LATE PLEISTOCENE STEPPE BISON (BISON PRISCUS BOJANUS, 1827) IN THE IBERIAN PENINSULA

Ameghiniana ◽  
2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jone Cataños ◽  
Pedro Castaños ◽  
Xabier Murelaga
Keyword(s):  
Iberian Peninsula ◽  
Late Pleistocene ◽  
Bison Bison ◽  
Steppe Bison ◽  
Bison Priscus

First Complete Skull of a Late Pleistocene Steppe Bison (Bison priscus) in the Iberian Peninsula

Ameghiniana ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 53 (5) ◽  
pp. 543-551
Author(s):  
Jone Castaños ◽  
Pedro Castaños ◽  
Xabier Murelaga
Keyword(s):  
Iberian Peninsula ◽  
Late Pleistocene ◽  
Bison Bison ◽  
Steppe Bison ◽  
Bison Priscus

A late Pleistocene steppe bison (Bison priscus) partial carcass from Tsiigehtchic, Northwest Territories, Canada

2009 ◽  
Vol 28 (25-26) ◽  
pp. 2734-2742 ◽  
Author(s):  
Grant D. Zazula ◽  
Glen MacKay ◽  
Thomas D. Andrews ◽  
Beth Shapiro ◽  
Brandon Letts ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Northwest Territories ◽  
Late Pleistocene ◽  
Bison Bison ◽  
Steppe Bison ◽  
Bison Priscus

scholarly journals Hunting the Extinct Steppe Bison (Bison priscus) Mitochondrial Genome in the Trois-Frères Paleolithic Painted Cave

PLoS ONE ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. e0128267 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marie-Claude Marsolier-Kergoat ◽  
Pauline Palacio ◽  
Véronique Berthonaud ◽  
Frédéric Maksud ◽  
Thomas Stafford ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mitochondrial Genome ◽  
Bison Bison ◽  
Steppe Bison ◽  
Bison Priscus

Genomic variability in the extinct steppe bison (Bison priscus) compared to the European bison (Bison bonasus)

2018 ◽  
Vol 64 (1) ◽  
pp. 127-131
Author(s):  
Astrid Vik Stronen ◽  
Laura Iacolina ◽  
Cino Pertoldi ◽  
Malgorzata Tokarska ◽  
Brita Singers Sørensen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Bison Bison ◽  
European Bison ◽  
Bison Bonasus ◽  
Genomic Variability ◽  
Steppe Bison ◽  
Bison Priscus

scholarly journals The Yukagir Bison: The exterior morphology of a complete frozen mummy of the extinct steppe bison, Bison priscus from the early Holocene of northern Yakutia, Russia

2016 ◽  
Vol 406 ◽  
pp. 94-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gennady G. Boeskorov ◽  
Olga R. Potapova ◽  
Albert V. Protopopov ◽  
Valery V. Plotnikov ◽  
Larry D. Agenbroad ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Early Holocene ◽  
Bison Bison ◽  
Steppe Bison ◽  
Bison Priscus

A detailed life history of a pleistocene steppe bison (Bison priscus) skeleton unearthed in Arctic Alaska

2020 ◽  
Vol 249 ◽  
pp. 106578
Author(s):  
Juliette Funck ◽  
Peter D. Heintzman ◽  
Gemma G.R. Murray ◽  
Beth Shapiro ◽  
Holly McKinney ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Life History ◽  
Bison Bison ◽  
Arctic Alaska ◽  
History Of ◽  
Steppe Bison ◽  
Bison Priscus

New Source of Dietary Data for Extinct Herbivores

1988 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 92-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
William A. Akersten ◽  
Theresea M. Foppe ◽  
George T. Jefferson
Keyword(s):  
Late Pleistocene ◽  
Indirect Evidence ◽  
Bison Bison ◽  
Large Herbivores ◽  
Usual Assumption ◽  
Microhistological Analysis ◽  
Rancho La Brea ◽  
Very High ◽  
Control Study ◽  
Dietary Data

The teeth of many large herbivores contain “pockets” (fossettes, fossettids, etc.) which entrap impacted samples of food (dental boluses) during mastication. These do not preserve well in most fossil deposits, but at Rancho La Brea, paleobotanical remains survive essentially intact and dental boluses from late Pleistocene forms are amenable to microhistological analysis. Of the identifiable bolus contents, those from Bison antiquus averaged 87% nonmonocotyledons; from Camelops hesternus, 90% nonmonocotyledons; and from Equus occidentalis (one specimen), 56% nonmonocotyledons. A control study on modern Bison bison shows that the boluses contain somewhat lower percentages of monocotyledons than do alimentary samples from the same individuals. However, this accounts for only a part of the very high percentage of nonmonocotyledons in the boluses of the extinct Bison. We conclude that the populations of B. antiquus and C. hesternus represented at Rancho La Brea probably fed little on grasses and that there is enough indirect evidence to suggest that the same may be true for other populations of these taxa. The Equus data are not sufficient to do more than question the usual assumption that Pleistocene horses were always obligate grass eaters.

scholarly journals Procurement and mobility during the Late Pleistocene: Characterising the stone-tool assemblage of the Picamoixons site (Tarragona, NE Iberian Peninsula)

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
María Soto
Keyword(s):  
Iberian Peninsula ◽  
Late Pleistocene ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
Stone Tool ◽  
Petrographic Analysis ◽  
Hunter Gatherers ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Ne Iberian Peninsula

The Picamoixons site is a rockshelter located in the province of Tarragona (NE Iberian Peninsula). It was object of two rescue campaigns during 1988 and 1993, which led to the recovery of a complete archaeological assemblage, including stone tools as well as faunal and portable art remains that date the occupation to the 14th to 11th millennium BP (calibrated). This study involves a petrographic characterisation of the stone-tool assemblage in order to establish: 1) the procurement areas, 2) the raw materials management strategies and 3) the mobility radius and territorial sizes of the hunter-gatherers groups that occupied the site. The method applied comprises in a multiscale analysis that includes systematic prospection, the petrographic characterisation of geological and archaeological samples, an analysis of the chert types represented in the knapping sequence, and the definition of the mobility axes and areas frequented according to lithic procurement.A petrographic analysis of the chert in the prospected area led to the definition of nine macroscopic varieties related to five types (Vilaplana, Morera, Maset, Vilella and Tossa cherts), related to Lower and Upper Muschelkalk (Triassic), Lutetian, Bartonian (Palaeocene) and Sannonian (Oligocene) deposits.The study of the knapping sequences indicates the main exploitation of Bartonian cherts (Tossa type), and the use of Lutetian cherts (Maset and Morera types) for configuring retouched tools. The exploitation of the remaining raw material types identified is considered sporadic and opportunistic.Defining the procurement areas enabled the mobility radius to be assessed as between 3 and 30 km, highlighting the importance of the fluvial basins as natural movement pathways. The results indicate that the main procurement territory was 16 km2 in area, associable with a forager radius. The most remote procurement distances suggest a maximum exploitation area of 260 km2, defining an intra-regional range. This range presents parallelisms with various contemporaneous hunter-gatherers groups in Western Europe, suggesting a progressive mobility reduction dynamic during the Late Pleistocene-Initial Holocene.

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