Deep-time paleogenomics and the limits of DNA survival

L Dalén, PD Heintzman, JD Kapp, B Shapiro - Science, 2023 - science.org
Although most ancient DNA studies have focused on the last 50,000 years, paleogenomic
approaches can now reach into the early Pleistocene, an epoch of repeated environmental …

Yedoma: Late Pleistocene ice-rich syngenetic permafrost of Beringia

L Schirrmeister, D Froese, S Wetterich, J Strauss… - 2024 - epic.awi.de
Yedoma is a permafrost deposit widely distributed across the Arctic and found exclusively
within the unglaciated regions in northern Siberia, Alaska, and the Yukon, which are the …

[HTML][HTML] Steppe-tundra composition and deglacial floristic turnover in interior Alaska revealed by sedimentary ancient DNA (sedaDNA)

CL Clarke, PD Heintzman, Y Lammers… - Quaternary Science …, 2024 - Elsevier
When tracing vegetation dynamics over long timescales, obtaining enough floristic
information to gain a detailed understanding of past communities and their transitions can …

Permafrost microbial communities follow shifts in vegetation, soils, and megafauna extinctions in Late Pleistocene NW North America

TJ Murchie, GS Long, BD Lanoil, D Froese… - Environmental …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
We analyzed the microbial constituent of sedimentary ancient DNA sequence data
recovered from subarctic loessal permafrost sediments dating between 30,000 and 4000 …

Stemmed points and the ice-free corridor

JW Ives - PaleoAmerica, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Fluting or basal thinning of lanceolate points can be readily recognized, so that much
reasoning about the initial occupation of the Ice-Free Corridor has centered on the fluted …

[PDF][PDF] Early Pleistocene glacier ice preserved in permafrost in the eastern Canadian Arctic

S Coulombe, D Fortier, D Lacelle, G St-Onge… - …, 2025 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Extensive amounts of glacier ice can be buried and preserved in the permafrost for
thousands to millions of years under favorable conditions. Here, we combine …

A local meteoric water line for Interior Alaska constrains Paleoclimate from 40,000 year old relict permafrost

TA Douglas, AJ Barker, AJ Monteath… - Environmental …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Anthropogenic climate warming is degrading permafrost across Interior Alaska. Information
from past warming events provides long-term perspectives of future trajectories, however …

Predation, reoccupation, cannibalism, and scavenging? Records of small mammals in arctic ground squirrel middens from east Beringia

SL Cocker, GD Zazula, E Hall, CN Jass… - Arctic, Antarctic, and …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Faunal remains from fossil arctic ground squirrel (Urocitellus parryii) middens provide insight
into the composition of small mammal communities during the late Pleistocene of Yukon …

[HTML][HTML] Едома. Часть 3. История геокриологического изучения и исследований стабильных изотопов и радиоуглеродного возраста во втором десятилетии и …

ЮК Васильчук - Арктика и Антарктика, 2023 - cyberleninka.ru
Второе десятилетие и начало третьего десятилетия XXI века в исследовании едомы
охарактеризовалось разнообразием высокоточных измерений. Еще более …