A5010561171- Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
- Evolution and Paleontology Studies
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
- Isotope Analysis in Ecology
- Ecology and biodiversity studies
- Indigenous Studies and Ecology
- Marine and environmental studies
- Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies
- Maritime and Coastal Archaeology
- Genetic diversity and population structure
- Marine animal studies overview
- Cephalopods and Marine Biology
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies
- Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology
- dental development and anomalies
- Historical and Archaeological Studies
- Environmental and Biological Research in Conflict Zones
- Marine and fisheries research
- Primate Behavior and Ecology
- Eurasian Exchange Networks
- Meat and Animal Product Quality
- Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
Natural History Museum Rotterdam
2013-2025
University of South Dakota
2018
Musée de l'Homme
2014
Western Digital (Netherlands)
2005
University of Groningen
2004
Zoological Institute
2004
Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute
2004
University of the Free State
2002
Part of a large male woolly mammoth ( Mammuthus primigenius ) was preserved in permafrost northern Yakutia. It radiocarbon dated to ca. 18,500 14 C yr BP (ca. 22,500 cal BP). Dung from the lower intestine subjected multiproxy array microscopic, chemical, and molecular techniques reconstruct diet, season death, paleoenvironment. Pollen plant macro-remains showed that grasses sedges were main food, with considerable amounts dwarf willow twigs variety herbs mosses. Analyses 110-bp fragments...
Abstract Near the end of Pleistocene epoch, populations woolly mammoth ( Mammuthus primigenius ) were distributed across parts three continents, from western Europe and northern Asia through Beringia to Atlantic seaboard North America. Nonetheless, questions about connectivity temporal continuity species remain unanswered. We use a combination targeted enrichment high-throughput sequencing assemble interpret data set 143 mitochondrial genomes, sampled fossils recovered their Holarctic range....
Saber-toothed cats (Machairodontinae) were wide-spread, top predators of the Pleistocene terrestrial ecosystem. In Europe, they previously known only from early and middle (Adam, 1961; Turner Anton, 1997), their fossils are always extremely rare. The previous youngest record was Steinheim a/d Murr, Germany, where an upper canine Homotherium found in a stratum dated to ca. 0.3 Ma 1961). this paper, we describe well-preserved den- tary latidens by 14 C be late Pleisto-
The modern wildherd of the tundra muskox (Ovibos moschatus) is native only to New World (northern North America and Greenland), its genetic diversity notably low. However, like several other megafaunal mammals, muskoxen enjoyed a holarctic distribution during late Pleistocene. To investigate whether collapse in range loss might be correlated, we collected mitochondrial sequence data (hypervariable region cytochrome b) from fossil material recovered localities northeastern Asia Arctic...
Abstract The genomic study of specimens dating to the Early and Middle Pleistocene (EP MP), a period spanning from 2.6 million years ago (Ma) 126 thousand (ka), has potential elucidate evolutionary processes that shaped present-day biodiversity. Obtaining data this is challenging, but mitochondrial DNA, given its higher abundance compared nuclear could play an important role understand at time scale. In study, we report 34 new mitogenomes, including two EP nine MP mammoth (Mammuthus spp.)...
Abstract Humans colonized the Balearic Islands 5–4 ka ago. They arrived in a uniquely adapted ecosystem with mountain goat Myotragus balearicus (Bovidae, Antilopinae, Caprini) as only large mammal. This mammal went extinct rapidly after human arrival. Several hypotheses have been proposed to explain extinction of M. . For present study ancient DNA analysis (Sanger sequencing, Roche-454, Ion Torrent), and pollen macrofossil analyses were performed on preserved coprolites from , providing...
(1) Background: Over the last decades, important fossil records of Late Pliocene mammals and reptiles have been unearthed in Milia, Grevena (N Greece). This assemblage shows a remarkable composition diversity, including partial skeletons mastodons that reached record-breaking sizes, abundant rhinos—the first occurrence this species Greece—and some new species; (2) Methods: We perform thorough quantitative analysis recovered assemblage, presenting information various collection spots...
Molars of eight large herbivore species (Megaloceros giganteus, Cervus elaphus, Rangifer tarandus, Alces alces, Bison priscus, Ovibos moschatus, Coelodonta antiquitatis and Stephanorhinus kirchbergensis) were collected ex situ from Pleistocene Holocene sands dredged in the North Sea, Dutch inland sites. Folds many molars contained compacted masticated plant remains, also microfossils. We identified pollen, spores, non-pollen palynomorphs discuss interpret food preferences, represented...
ABSTRACT The molar of a giant deer, Megaloceros giganteus (Blumenbach, 1799), was discovered in sandy deposits the North Sea, about 10 km west present shoreline Netherlands. Compacted masticated plant remains were preserved molar's deep folds. A palaeoecological analysis these shows complete dominance pollen from Artemisia (sage) and other Asteraceae Tubuliflorae (Compositae), indicating that animal foraged steppe environment, may have preferred to eat , which contain high level nutrients...