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A new terrestrial palaeoenvironmental record from the Bering Land Bridge and context for human dispersal

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: A new terrestrial palaeoenvironmental record from the Bering Land Bridge and context for human dispersal
المؤلفون: Matthew J. Wooller, Émilie Saulnier-Talbot, Ben A. Potter, Soumaya Belmecheri, Nancy Bigelow, Kyungcheol Choy, Les C. Cwynar, Kimberley Davies, Russell W. Graham, Joshua Kurek, Peter Langdon, Andrew Medeiros, Ruth Rawcliffe, Yue Wang, John W. Williams
المصدر: Royal Society Open Science, Vol 5, Iss 6 (2018)
بيانات النشر: The Royal Society, 2018.
سنة النشر: 2018
المجموعة: LCC:Science
مصطلحات موضوعية: beringia, stable isotopes, diatoms, cladocerans, chironomids, environmental change, Science
الوصف: Palaeoenvironmental records from the now-submerged Bering Land Bridge (BLB) covering the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) to the present are needed to document changing environments and connections with the dispersal of humans into North America. Moreover, terrestrially based records of environmental changes are needed in close proximity to the re-establishment of circulation between Pacific and Atlantic Oceans following the end of the last glaciation to test palaeo-climate models for the high latitudes. We present the first terrestrial temperature and hydrologic reconstructions from the LGM to the present from the BLB's south-central margin. We find that the timing of the earliest unequivocal human dispersals into Alaska, based on archaeological evidence, corresponds with a shift to warmer/wetter conditions on the BLB between 14 700 and 13 500 years ago associated with the early Bølling/Allerød interstadial (BA). These environmental changes could have provided the impetus for eastward human dispersal at that time, from Western or central Beringia after a protracted human population standstill. Our data indicate substantial climate-induced environmental changes on the BLB since the LGM, which would potentially have had significant influences on megafaunal and human biogeography in the region.
نوع الوثيقة: article
وصف الملف: electronic resource
اللغة: English
تدمد: 2054-5703
Relation: https://doaj.org/toc/2054-5703
DOI: 10.1098/rsos.180145
URL الوصول: https://doaj.org/article/8d956aeb7785488ba9c074843c000819
رقم الانضمام: edsdoj.8d956aeb7785488ba9c074843c000819
قاعدة البيانات: Directory of Open Access Journals
الوصف
تدمد:20545703
DOI:10.1098/rsos.180145