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Beringia Centre Science Talks – Audrey Rowe
Mar 18 @ 11:00 am MST
Beringia Centre Science Talks are back! Join us as we explore fascinating topics in #archaeology, #naturalscience, and #palaeontology.
For this talk, we’ll be joined by PhD candidate Audrey Rowe to talk about her recent paper “A female woolly mammoth’s lifetime movements end in an ancient Alaskan hunter-gatherer camp”
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Woolly mammoths in mainland Alaska overlapped with the region’s first people for at least a millennium. However, it is unclear how mammoths used the space shared with people. Here, we use detailed isotopic analyses of a female mammoth tusk found in a 14,000-year-old archaeological site to show that she moved ~1000 kilometers from northwestern Canada to inhabit an area with the highest density of early archaeological sites in interior Alaska until her death. DNA from the tusk and other local contemporaneous archaeological mammoth remains revealed that multiple mammoth herds congregated in this region. Early Alaskans seem to have structured their settlements partly based on mammoth prevalence and made use of mammoths for raw materials and likely food.
Woolly mammoths in mainland Alaska overlapped with the region’s first people for at least a millennium. However, it is unclear how mammoths used the space shared with people. Here, we use detailed isotopic analyses of a female mammoth tusk found in a 14,000-year-old archaeological site to show that she moved ~1000 kilometers from northwestern Canada to inhabit an area with the highest density of early archaeological sites in interior Alaska until her death. DNA from the tusk and other local contemporaneous archaeological mammoth remains revealed that multiple mammoth herds congregated in this region. Early Alaskans seem to have structured their settlements partly based on mammoth prevalence and made use of mammoths for raw materials and likely food.
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This talk will be livestreamed on Facebook and on Zoom. Prefer watching on Zoom? Register for the talk here: https://us06web.zoom.us/…/701…/WN_2wYzUkvwQJe7eKOriifnFA
This talk will be livestreamed on Facebook and on Zoom. Prefer watching on Zoom? Register for the talk here: https://us06web.zoom.us/…/701…/WN_2wYzUkvwQJe7eKOriifnFA