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Article: Faunal and Archaeological Remains as Evidence of Climate Change in Freezing Caverns, Yukon Territory, Canada.
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- June 1, 2001
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BERNARD LAURIOL [1,2]
CLEMENT PREVOST [3]
ERIC DESCHAMPS [1]
JACQUES CINQ-MARS [4]
SYLVAIN LABRECQUE [5]
(Received 7 June 2000; accepted in revised form 11 September 2000)
ABSTRACT. Animal and plant remains, some associated with prehistoric artefacts, were collected in freezing caverns (glacieres) of northern Yukon Territory. Radiocarbon dates show that the oldest remains are Middle Wisconsinan (ca. 38 000 BP). The absence of material of Late Wisconsinan age likely indicates that the caves were infilled by ice during this cold period. Climate warming and ice melting during the Holocene allowed animals and prehistoric ...