Yukon Department of Tourism and Culture

Recent papers from Yukon Department of Tourism and Culture

1. Ground squirrel coprolites preserve complex archives of ancient environmental DNA over 700,000 yearsNature Communications · 2026
2. A 2D geometric morphometric analysis of the occlusal enamel patterns of eastern Beringian equid cheek teeth, with taxonomic implicationsZoological Journal of the Linnean Society · 2026
3. The swiftness of lightning: The cultural and social dimensions of incised lines on archaeological arrows from alpine ice patches in Canada’s Northwest TerritoriesPlains Anthropologist · 2024
4. Collapse of the mammoth-steppe in central Yukon as revealed by ancient environmental DNANature Communications · 2021
5. Ancient horse genomes reveal the timing and extent of dispersals across the Bering Land BridgeMolecular Ecology · 2021
6. Environmental genomics of Late Pleistocene black bears and giant short-faced bearsCurrent Biology · 2021
7. Seasonal paleoecological records from antler collagen δ ¹³ C and δ ¹⁵ NPaleobiology · 2021
8. Genomic Adaptations and Evolutionary History of the Extinct Scimitar-Toothed Cat, Homotherium latidensCurrent Biology · 2020
9. American mastodon mitochondrial genomes suggest multiple dispersal events in response to Pleistocene climate oscillationsNature Communications · 2020
10. Population dynamics and range shifts of moose (Alces alces) during the Late QuaternaryJournal of Biogeography · 2020
11. The evolutionary history of extinct and living lionsProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2020
12. Nitrogen isotopes suggest a change in nitrogen dynamics between the Late Pleistocene and modern time in Yukon, CanadaPLoS ONE · 2018
13. Nitrogen and carbon isotopic dynamics of subarctic soils and plants in southern Yukon Territory and its implications for paleoecological and paleodietary studiesPLoS ONE · 2017
14. A middle Holocene steppe bison and paleoenvironments from the Versleuce Meadows, Whitehorse, Yukon, CanadaCanadian Journal of Earth Sciences · 2017
15. Fossil and genomic evidence constrains the timing of bison arrival in North AmericaProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2017
16. Mitogenomics of the Extinct Cave Lion, Panthera spelaea (Goldfuss, 1810), Resolve its Position within the Panthera CatsOpen Quaternary · 2016
17. Mammuthus Population Dynamics in Late Pleistocene North America: Divergence, Phylogeography, and IntrogressionFrontiers in Ecology and Evolution · 2016
18. Taxonomy, location of origin and health status of proboscideans from Western Canada investigated using stable isotope analysisJournal of Quaternary Science · 2016
19. American mastodon extirpation in the Arctic and Subarctic predates human colonization and terminal Pleistocene climate changeProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2014
20. The Emergence of Glacial ArchaeologyJournal of Glacial Archaeology · 2014