Radiocarbon evidence of mid-Holocene mammoths stranded on an Alaskan Bering Sea island

Nature

Volumn 429, Issue 6993, 2004, Pages 746-749

  Guthrie, R Dale ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; MASS SPECTROMETERS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

ISLAND COLONIZATION; MAMMOTHS;

CARBON;

EXTINCTION; HOLOCENE; ISLAND BIOGEOGRAPHY; STRANDING;

ARTICLE; ELEPHANT; EVOLUTION; HOLOCENE; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; PLEISTOCENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES EXTINCTION; UNITED STATES;

ALASKA; ANIMALS; CARBON RADIOISOTOPES; FOSSILS; GEOGRAPHY; ICE; MAMMALS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; OCEANS AND SEAS; SEAWATER; TIME FACTORS;

ALASKA; BERING SEA; NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PRIBILOF ISLANDS; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; ELEPHANT; MAMMALIA;

EID: 3042640440     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02612     Document Type: Article

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