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A female woolly mammoth’s lifetime movements end in an ancient Alaskan hunter-gatherer camp

Published:2024-01-19 Issue:3 Volume:10 Page:
ISSN:2375-2548
Container-title:Science Advances
language:en
Short-container-title:Sci. Adv.

Author:

Rowe Audrey G.¹²^ORCID,Bataille Clement P.³⁴^ORCID,Baleka Sina⁵^ORCID,Combs Evelynn A.⁶,Crass Barbara A.⁷,Fisher Daniel C.⁸^ORCID,Ghosh Sambit¹^ORCID,Holmes Charles E.⁹^ORCID,Krasinski Kathryn E.¹⁰,Lanoë François¹¹^ORCID,Murchie Tyler J.⁵¹²^ORCID,Poinar Hendrik⁵¹³^ORCID,Potter Ben⁹^ORCID,Rasic Jeffrey T.¹⁴^ORCID,Reuther Joshua⁷⁹^ORCID,Smith Gerad M.¹⁵^ORCID,Spaleta Karen J.¹^ORCID,Wygal Brian T.¹⁰^ORCID,Wooller Matthew J.¹²^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Alaska Stable Isotope Facility, University of Alaska Fairbanks, AK, USA.

2. Department of Marine Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks, AK, USA.

3. Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

4. Department of Biology, University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

5. McMaster Ancient DNA Centre, Department of Anthropology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

6. Healy Lake Village Council, Fairbanks, AK, USA.

7. University of Alaska Museum of the North, Fairbanks, AK, USA.

8. Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.

9. Department of Anthropology, University of Alaska Fairbanks, AK, USA.

10. Department of Anthropology, Adelphi University, Garden City, NY, USA.

11. Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA.

12. Hakai Institute, Heriot Bay, British Columbia, Canada.

13. Departments of Biochemistry and Biology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

14. National Park Service, AK, USA.

15. Department of Anthropology and Geography, University of Alaska Anchorage, AK, USA.

Abstract

Woolly mammoths in mainland Alaska overlapped with the region’s first people for at least a millennium. However, it is unclear how mammoths used the space shared with people. Here, we use detailed isotopic analyses of a female mammoth tusk found in a 14,000-year-old archaeological site to show that she moved ~1000 kilometers from northwestern Canada to inhabit an area with the highest density of early archaeological sites in interior Alaska until her death. DNA from the tusk and other local contemporaneous archaeological mammoth remains revealed that multiple mammoth herds congregated in this region. Early Alaskans seem to have structured their settlements partly based on mammoth prevalence and made use of mammoths for raw materials and likely food.

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Link

https://www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1126/sciadv.adk0818

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