Our understanding of the timing and pathway of human arrival to the Americas remains an
important and polarizing topic of debate in archaeology and anthropology. Traditional …

Controversy persists about why so many large‐bodied mammal species went extinct around
the end of the last ice age. Resolving this is important for understanding extinction …

The temporal and spatial coarseness of megafaunal fossil records complicates attempts to to
disentangle the relative impacts of climate change, ecosystem restructuring, and human …

" Sometime before 15,000 years ago, a band of hunter-gatherers arrived in Northeast Asia.
They continued east, becoming the first people to set foot in the Americas. They soon found …

The disappearance of many North American megafauna at the end of the Pleistocene is a
contentious topic. While the proposed causes for megafaunal extinction are varied, most …

Little is known about woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) mobility and range. Here
we use high temporal resolution sequential analyses of strontium isotope ratios along an …

Watersheds are complex mosaics of habitats whose conditions vary across space and time
as landscape features filter overriding climate forcing, yet the extent to which the reliability of …

The causes of Late Pleistocene megafaunal extinctions (60,000 to 11,650 years ago,
hereafter 60 to 11.65 ka) remain contentious, with major phases coinciding with both human …

Twentieth century warming has increased vegetation productivity and shrub cover across
northern tundra and treeline regions, but effects on terrestrial wildlife have not been …

The collapse of the steppe-tundra biome (mammoth steppe) at the end of the Pleistocene is
used as an important example of top-down ecosystem cascades, where human hunting of …