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American mastodon extirpation in the Arctic and Subarctic predates human
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Zazula GD
; MacPhee RD
; Metcalfe JZ
; Reyes AV
; Brock F
; Druckenmiller PS
; Groves P
; Harington CR
; Hodgins GW
; Kunz ML
; Longstaffe FJ
; Mann DH
; McDonald HG
; Nalawade-Chavan S
; Southon JR
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
2014[Dec]; 111
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): 18460-5
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Existing radiocarbon ((14)C) dates on American mastodon (Mammut americanum)
fossils from eastern Beringia (Alaska and Yukon) have been interpreted as
evidence they inhabited the Arctic and Subarctic during Pleistocene full-glacial
times (? 18,000 (14)C years B.P.). However, this chronology is inconsistent with
inferred habitat preferences of mastodons and correlative paleoecological
evidence. To establish a last appearance date (LAD) for M. americanum regionally,
we obtained 53 new (14)C dates on 36 fossils, including specimens with previously
published dates. Using collagen ultrafiltration and single amino acid
(hydroxyproline) methods, these specimens consistently date to beyond or near the
? 50,000 y B.P. limit of (14)C dating. Some erroneously "young" (14)C dates are
due to contamination by exogenous carbon from natural sources and conservation
treatments used in museums. We suggest mastodons inhabited the high latitudes
only during warm intervals, particularly the Last Interglacial [Marine Isotope
Stage (MIS) 5] when boreal forests existed regionally. Our (14)C dataset suggests
that mastodons were extirpated from eastern Beringia during the MIS 4 glacial
interval (? 75,000 y ago), following the ecological shift from boreal forest to
steppe tundra. Mastodons thereafter became restricted to areas south of the
continental ice sheets, where they suffered complete extinction ? 10,000 (14)C
years B.P. Mastodons were already absent from eastern Beringia several tens of
millennia before the first humans crossed the Bering Isthmus or the onset of
climate changes during the terminal Pleistocene. Local extirpations of mastodons
and other megafaunal populations in eastern Beringia were asynchrononous and
independent of their final extinction south of the continental ice sheets.