R Dale Guthrie
Biographic Data
| ID | 278052 |
|---|---|
| NAME | R Dale Guthrie |
| GIVEN NAMES | R Dale |
| FAMILY NAME | Guthrie |
| SIGNATURE | GUTHRIE R D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alaska Fairbanks |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1968 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Mosaics, Allelochemics, and Nutrients: An Ecological Theory of Late Pleistocene Megafaunal Extinctions
New carbon dates link climatic change with human colonization and Pleistocene extinctions
Origin and causes of the mammoth steppe: A story of cloud cover, woolly mammal tooth pits, buckles, and inside-out Beringia
People and Wildlife in Northern North America: Essays in honor of R. Dale Guthrie
The collection of 22 papers gathered to honour Russell Dale Guthrie, archaeologist, anthropologist, and palaeonthologist who is working on a wide variety of quaternary and evolutionary topics related to the northern parts of North America. The volume is divided into three sections, Paleoecology, Archaeology and Methods. The topics range from palaeoecology and archaeology of British Columbia, fauna of Canada and Alaska, prehistoric faunal remains …
Spatial Response of Mammals to Late Quaternary Environmental Fluctuations
Analyses of fossil mammal faunas from 2945 localities in the United States demonstrate that the geographic ranges of individual species shifted at different times, in different directions, and at different rates in response to late Quaternary environmental fluctuations. The geographic pattern of faunal provinces was similar for the late Pleistocene and late Holocene, but differing environmental gradients resulted in dissimilar species composition…
Stratigraphy of the Colorado Creek Mammoth Locality, Alaska
The Colorado Creek mammoth locality in west-central Alaska contains the remains of two mammoths that were scavenged by carnivores. Sedimentologic interpretations of the reworked eolian deposits surrounding the bones, supplemented by 10 radiocarbon dates, indicate that the lower and upper mammoths died and were buried within separate, but superimposed, thaw gullies about 23,000 and 16,000 yr ago, respectively. From our results, we propose a polycy…
Frozen Fauna of the Mammoth Steppe: The Story of Blue Babe
Paleoecological Significance of Mummified Remains of Pleistocene Horses from the North Slope of the Brooks Range, Alaska
Radiocarbon dates from horse fossils found on the North Slope of Alaska show that horses did live there during the last peak glacial (Duvanny Yar Interval, Marine Isotope Stage 2). Some previous paleoecological studies have assumed the region's climate was too extreme for large mammals during the Duvanny Yar. Hoof structure suggests the Pleistocene horses survived on winter range characterized by low snowfall and/or snow removal by wind. Hoof gro…
Siberian Paleolithic Archaeology: Approaches and Analytic Methods [and Comments and Replies]
This paper examines the approaches and methods of Soviet archaeologists dealing with the Siberian Paleolithic and with the problem of early man in Siberia and the Far East
River Ice as a Taphonomic Agent: An Alternative Hypothesis for Bone “Artifacts”
The annual freezeup and violent breakup of temperate and high-latitude rivers produces unique geomorphic features that can be recognized in ancient sediments. The forces and materials involved in the breakup process could modify entrained bones in ways similar to those attributed to human activity. An intuitive taphonomic model is developed to explain how river ice may affect bones, and to predict the modifications expected. Partial testing of th…
The Evidence for Middle-Wisconsin Peopling of Beringia: An Evaluation
Broken large mammal fossil bones in eastern Beringia have been used to argue for a middle-Wisconsin, or earlier, time of human entry into North America, It has been inferred that these controversial Pleistocene bones are artifacts because (1) they are similar to those found in archaeological sites and (2) they can be reproduced in the laboratory by replication. However, fractured, flaked, polished, faceted, cut, and scratched bones similar to the…
The Cape Deceit Fauna—Early Pleistocene Mammalian Assemblage from the Alaskan Arctic
Pleistocene exposures located near Cape Deceit on the south shore of Kotzebue Sound (Alaska) contain a complex sequence of organic sediments which have yielded fossil vertebrates of taxonomic, evolutionary, and zoogeographic significance. Cape Deceit Local Fauna from the Cape Deceit Formation, lowermost of three major stratigraphic units recognized at the site, contains representatives of the genera Canis, Rangifer, Cervus, Ochotona, Lemmus, Micr…
Pleistocene, Holocene and Recent Bird Gastroliths from Interior Alaska
Describes and discusses the origin of polished and rounded grains of quartz, secondary quartz, and chert from (probably) Holocene loess of Easter Egg Hill near Livengood townsite, peat on the Nenana Road, and redeposited Wisconsin loess from the Eva Creek Mine and Ready Bullion Creek Mine at 64 51 N, 148 02 W. The association of these grains with dull, angular grains of the same materials rules out soil or solifluction abrasion in place. Gizzard-…
Pleistocene Extinctions: The Search for a Cause, edited by P.S. Martin and H.E. Wright, Jr
Paleoecology of a Late Pleistocene Small Mammal Community from Interior Alaska
The material was recovered from exposures, mostly mine cuts through the silt, to reach auriferous gravels at five localities near Fairbanks. The age range of the silts is mainly early Illinoian - present. The vole Microtus gregalis predominates in the fossil assemblage, indicating a habitat above tree line with welldrained soils. M. gregalis, Citellus undulatus and Dicrostonyx torquatus are not now found in the area however, and their extinction …
Paleoecological Significance of Mummified Remains of Pleistocene Horses from the North Slope of the Brooks Range, Alaska
Radiocarbon dates from horse fossils found on the North Slope of Alaska show that horses did live there during the last peak glacial (Duvanny Yar Interval, Marine Isotope Stage 2). Some previous paleoecological studies have assumed the region's climate was too extreme for large mammals during the Duvanny Yar. Hoof structure suggests the Pleistocene horses survived on winter range characterized by low snowfall and/or snow removal by wind. Hoof gro…
Siberian Paleolithic Archaeology: Approaches and Analytic Methods [and Comments and Replies]
This paper examines the approaches and methods of Soviet archaeologists dealing with the Siberian Paleolithic and with the problem of early man in Siberia and the Far East
Paleoecology of a Late Pleistocene Small Mammal Community from Interior Alaska
The material was recovered from exposures, mostly mine cuts through the silt, to reach auriferous gravels at five localities near Fairbanks. The age range of the silts is mainly early Illinoian - present. The vole Microtus gregalis predominates in the fossil assemblage, indicating a habitat above tree line with welldrained soils. M. gregalis, Citellus undulatus and Dicrostonyx torquatus are not now found in the area however, and their extinction …
Pleistocene Extinctions: The Search for a Cause, edited by P.S. Martin and H.E. Wright, Jr
Pleistocene, Holocene and Recent Bird Gastroliths from Interior Alaska
Describes and discusses the origin of polished and rounded grains of quartz, secondary quartz, and chert from (probably) Holocene loess of Easter Egg Hill near Livengood townsite, peat on the Nenana Road, and redeposited Wisconsin loess from the Eva Creek Mine and Ready Bullion Creek Mine at 64 51 N, 148 02 W. The association of these grains with dull, angular grains of the same materials rules out soil or solifluction abrasion in place. Gizzard-…
The Cape Deceit Fauna—Early Pleistocene Mammalian Assemblage from the Alaskan Arctic
Pleistocene exposures located near Cape Deceit on the south shore of Kotzebue Sound (Alaska) contain a complex sequence of organic sediments which have yielded fossil vertebrates of taxonomic, evolutionary, and zoogeographic significance. Cape Deceit Local Fauna from the Cape Deceit Formation, lowermost of three major stratigraphic units recognized at the site, contains representatives of the genera Canis, Rangifer, Cervus, Ochotona, Lemmus, Micr…
River Ice as a Taphonomic Agent: An Alternative Hypothesis for Bone “Artifacts”
The annual freezeup and violent breakup of temperate and high-latitude rivers produces unique geomorphic features that can be recognized in ancient sediments. The forces and materials involved in the breakup process could modify entrained bones in ways similar to those attributed to human activity. An intuitive taphonomic model is developed to explain how river ice may affect bones, and to predict the modifications expected. Partial testing of th…
The Evidence for Middle-Wisconsin Peopling of Beringia: An Evaluation
Broken large mammal fossil bones in eastern Beringia have been used to argue for a middle-Wisconsin, or earlier, time of human entry into North America, It has been inferred that these controversial Pleistocene bones are artifacts because (1) they are similar to those found in archaeological sites and (2) they can be reproduced in the laboratory by replication. However, fractured, flaked, polished, faceted, cut, and scratched bones similar to the…
Siberian Paleolithic Archaeology: Approaches and Analytic Methods [and Comments and Replies]
This paper examines the approaches and methods of Soviet archaeologists dealing with the Siberian Paleolithic and with the problem of early man in Siberia and the Far East
Frozen Fauna of the Mammoth Steppe: The Story of Blue Babe
Paleoecological Significance of Mummified Remains of Pleistocene Horses from the North Slope of the Brooks Range, Alaska
Radiocarbon dates from horse fossils found on the North Slope of Alaska show that horses did live there during the last peak glacial (Duvanny Yar Interval, Marine Isotope Stage 2). Some previous paleoecological studies have assumed the region's climate was too extreme for large mammals during the Duvanny Yar. Hoof structure suggests the Pleistocene horses survived on winter range characterized by low snowfall and/or snow removal by wind. Hoof gro…
Stratigraphy of the Colorado Creek Mammoth Locality, Alaska
The Colorado Creek mammoth locality in west-central Alaska contains the remains of two mammoths that were scavenged by carnivores. Sedimentologic interpretations of the reworked eolian deposits surrounding the bones, supplemented by 10 radiocarbon dates, indicate that the lower and upper mammoths died and were buried within separate, but superimposed, thaw gullies about 23,000 and 16,000 yr ago, respectively. From our results, we propose a polycy…
Spatial Response of Mammals to Late Quaternary Environmental Fluctuations
Analyses of fossil mammal faunas from 2945 localities in the United States demonstrate that the geographic ranges of individual species shifted at different times, in different directions, and at different rates in response to late Quaternary environmental fluctuations. The geographic pattern of faunal provinces was similar for the late Pleistocene and late Holocene, but differing environmental gradients resulted in dissimilar species composition…
Origin and causes of the mammoth steppe: A story of cloud cover, woolly mammal tooth pits, buckles, and inside-out Beringia
People and Wildlife in Northern North America: Essays in honor of R. Dale Guthrie
The collection of 22 papers gathered to honour Russell Dale Guthrie, archaeologist, anthropologist, and palaeonthologist who is working on a wide variety of quaternary and evolutionary topics related to the northern parts of North America. The volume is divided into three sections, Paleoecology, Archaeology and Methods. The topics range from palaeoecology and archaeology of British Columbia, fauna of Canada and Alaska, prehistoric faunal remains …
New carbon dates link climatic change with human colonization and Pleistocene extinctions
Mosaics, Allelochemics, and Nutrients: An Ecological Theory of Late Pleistocene Megafaunal Extinctions
Archaeology (12 works) · Geography (12 works) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (11 works) · Geology (9 works) · Paleontology (9 works) · Pleistocene (9 works) · Biology (8 works) · Ecology (7 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (6 works) · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (6 works)