Skip to main content

Bluefish Caves - fauna and context

Dates

Year
2008

Citation

Harington, C. R., and Cinq-Mars, J., 2008, Bluefish Caves - fauna and context: .

Summary

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 30,000 years. The [...]

Contacts

Attached Files

Click on title to download individual files attached to this item.

Shapefile: 7595.zip
7595.cpg 5 Bytes
7595.dbf 1.45 KB
7595.prj 145 Bytes
7595.sbn 132 Bytes
7595.sbx 116 Bytes
7595.shp 348 Bytes
7595.shp.xml 779 Bytes
7595.shx 108 Bytes

Map

Spatial Services

ScienceBase WMS

ScienceBase WFS

Communities

  • LC MAP - Landscape Conservation Management and Analysis Portal
  • Northwest Boreal Landscape Conservation Cooperative

Tags

Provenance

Data source
File Processing
File Process
Type
End Note
Reference Item
NWBLCC20160627

Additional Information

Citation Extension

citationTypeReport
parts
typeNotes
value7595

Shapefile Extension

boundingBox
minY67.41962121400007
minX-140.29576354099999
maxY67.77118555800007
maxX-139.465701374
files
name7595.cpg
contentTypetext/plain
pathOnDisk__disk__a7/bd/a9/a7bda987df6c7c9abe3e06306804cb0fd732af2f
imageWidth580
imageHeight435
size5
dateUploadedTue Aug 30 17:20:16 MDT 2016
name7595.dbf
contentTypeapplication/unknown
pathOnDisk__disk__48/51/d8/4851d835e8c698b5c63bff949cce8d10f795c4ea
size1485
dateUploadedTue Aug 30 17:20:16 MDT 2016
name7595.prj
contentTypetext/plain
pathOnDisk__disk__e4/a0/69/e4a06919043b72436bd7ffd7bcb57a23aceb044f
imageWidth580
imageHeight435
size145
dateUploadedTue Aug 30 17:20:16 MDT 2016
name7595.sbn
contentTypex-gis/x-shapefile
pathOnDisk__disk__1b/8a/cf/1b8acf1975cf29881fea30e5162bcc0a2a552364
size132
dateUploadedTue Aug 30 17:20:16 MDT 2016
name7595.sbx
contentTypex-gis/x-shapefile
pathOnDisk__disk__ad/5e/28/ad5e283bf9afaae57c16429d8a42ad6cb6791648
size116
dateUploadedTue Aug 30 17:20:16 MDT 2016
name7595.shp
contentTypex-gis/x-shapefile
pathOnDisk__disk__e3/93/fa/e393fae10af9de1b5bbbba5bd628f50df16cf088
size348
dateUploadedTue Aug 30 17:20:16 MDT 2016
name7595.shp.xml
contentTypeapplication/xml
pathOnDisk__disk__b7/87/8b/b7878b0253b4d3a00d027db9c3a8ebf279c68228
imageWidth580
imageHeight435
size779
dateUploadedTue Aug 30 17:20:16 MDT 2016
name7595.shx
contentTypex-gis/x-shapefile
pathOnDisk__disk__b5/c8/71/b5c871c1bec270ea89970e57fc017ef046dac4ec
size108
dateUploadedTue Aug 30 17:20:16 MDT 2016
geometryTypeMultiPolygon
name7595
nativeCrsEPSG:4326

Item Actions

View Item as ...

Save Item as ...

View Item...