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Paleoethological Reconstruction and Taphonomy of Equus lambei from the Bluefish Caves, Yukon Territory, Canada
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The Bluefish Caves, northern Yukon, Canada, have yielded evidence of pre-Holocene human occupation of eastern Beringia. The three caves at Bluefish contain a large and complex late Pleistocene fauna in situ. Our research on the mortality patterns and the paleoethology of Equus lambei (an extinct species of horse), a dominant component of the Bluefish assemblages, was based on the dental remains. Mortality profiles for Equus lambei indicate that predators were the likely primary agents of bone accumulation at Cave I, while Caves II and III appear to have accumulated bones through accidental or natural deaths, probably regularly monitored by humans and other predator/scavengers. Paleoethological reconstruction for E. lambei, supports the suggestion the Bluefish Basin was not a polar desert during the late Pleistocene. Finally, the use of tooth height/age tables to establish age profiles of fossil equid populations is demonstrated to be limited to establishing broad, relative age categories.
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“Palaeoenvironmental evidence, including evidence of herbaceous tundra vegetation [31, 32] and vertebrate fauna typical of Pleistocene deposits found elsewhere in Eastern Beringia [27, 33, 34], is consistent with previously obtained radiocarbon dates which suggest that the loess layer was deposited between 10,000 and 25,000 14C BP (radiocarbon years Before Present), i.e., between 11,000 and 30,000”
From Earliest Human Presence in North America Dated to the Last Glacial Maximum: New Radiocarbon Dates from Bluefish Caves, Canada (2017) · cites this paper as [35]
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“The results range from 10,490 ± 55 14C BP to 19,650 ± 130 14C BP, i.e., between 12,000 and 24,000 cal BP, and are consistent with previously reported dates for Bluefish Caves (Table 1) [23–27, 35].”
From Earliest Human Presence in North America Dated to the Last Glacial Maximum: New Radiocarbon Dates from Bluefish Caves, Canada (2017) · cites this paper as [35]
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“Previous cementochronological analysis of one of the teeth from this mandible indicated that the animal was killed in spring/summer [35]”
From Earliest Human Presence in North America Dated to the Last Glacial Maximum: New Radiocarbon Dates from Bluefish Caves, Canada (2017) · cites this paper as [35]
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Bourgeon, L., Burke, A., & Higham, T. (2017) · PLOS ONE · doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0169486 · Cited by 184
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- Burke, A., & Cinq-Mars, J.
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- ARCTIC
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- 1998-01-01
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- 51
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- 2
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- 1923-1245
- 0004-0843
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