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Highlights of ice-age vertebrate faunas from Canadian caves are presented in geographic order (east to west). They include four each from Quebec and Ontario; three from Alberta; one from Yukon; and ten from British Columbia. Localities, vertebrate species represented, radiocarbon ages, and paleoenvironmental evidence are mentioned where available, as well as pertinent references. Of these caves, perhaps Bluefish Caves, Yukon, are most significant, because they contain evidence for the earliest people in North America. Tables provide lists of species and radiocarbon ages from each site.
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Highlights of ice-age vertebrate faunas from Canadian caves are presented in geographic order (east to west). They include four each from Quebec and Ontario; three from Alberta; one from Yukon; and ten from British Columbia. Localities, vertebrate species represented, radiocarbon ages, and paleoenvironmental evidence are mentioned where available, as well as pertinent references. Of these caves, perhaps Bluefish Caves, Yukon, are most significant, because they contain evidence for the earliest people in North America. Tables provide lists of species and radiocarbon ages from each site.
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Bluefish Caves (Figure 1), located 54 km southwest of the village of Old Crow in northern Yukon has yielded evidence of episodic human activity from about 25,000 to 12,000 BP (radiocarbon years before present). It may be the most significant of Late Pleistocene Eastern Beringian and Canadian cave faunas because the caves contain: (1) in situ evidence for the earliest people in North America; (2) a well-marked transition between Pleistocene (approximately 2 million to 10,000 years ago) and Holocene (about the last 10,000 years) sediments, flora and fauna; and (3) remains of a substantial variety of both smaller and larger mammals adapted to northern conditions, as well as migratory birds, that lived during the last...
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Bluefish Caves (Figure 1), located 54 km southwest of the village of Old Crow in northern Yukon has yielded evidence of episodic human activity from about 25,000 to 12,000 BP (radiocarbon years before present). It may be the most significant of Late Pleistocene Eastern Beringian and Canadian cave faunas because the caves contain: (1) in situ evidence for the earliest people in North America; (2) a well-marked transition between Pleistocene (approximately 2 million to 10,000 years ago) and Holocene (about the last 10,000 years) sediments, flora and fauna; and (3) remains of a substantial variety of both smaller and larger mammals adapted to northern conditions, as well as migratory birds, that lived during the last...
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