As the planet cooled from peak warmth in the early Cenozoic, extensive Northern
Hemisphere ice sheets developed by 2.6 Ma ago, leading to changes in the circulation of …

Stable isotope analysis (SIA) has emerged as a common tool in ecology and has proven
especially useful in the study of animal diet, habitat use, movement, and physiology. SIA has …

This status review was compiled by a US Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) Biological
Review Team (BRT) in response to a petition filed by the Center for Biological Diversity to list …

A program of paired dating of human and faunal remains on a sample of 11 prehistoric
(Mesolithic/Neolithic to Early Bronze Age) graves in the Upper Lena basin, southeast …

This study provides an ecological explanation for the distribution of Arctic Small Tool
tradition (ASTt) settlements in Alaska and the origin of their arctic maritime adaptation …

Norton culture commonly designates a relatively homogeneous set of assemblages of the
western Arctic that at their maximum were scattered over territory having a southern limit on …

Cave, a lava tube cave on St. Paul Island in the Pribilofs, has recently produced a mid-
Holocene vertebrate faunal assemblage including woolly mammoth, polar bear, caribou …

The eastern Aleutian prehistoric archaeological sequence is key for understanding
population movements, cultural exchanges, and adaptations to environmental changes over …

Bulk sediment samples can contribute high-resolution subsistence and paleoenvironmental
data from archaeological sites excavated before the adoption of modern zooarchaeological …

The earliest durable cooking technologies found in Alaska are stone bowls and griddle
stones recovered from the Aleutian Islands. This article aims to identify the function of these …