Caribou, or reindeer, are probably the most iconic Yukon animal today. Their history runs deep in the North—they evolved in Beringia as much as 2 million years ago. Caribou are a member of the diverse New World deer group, and out of all deer species …

2011年6月1日 · The reindeer fossils have been found in association with species that also inhabited the northern tundra as well as continental steppe biotopes. The associations represent the early Middle Pleistocene “Mammoth Steppe” fauna.

2006年1月1日 · Based on a large fossil record and radiocarbon dating, it becomes clear that reindeer was part of the Late Pleistocene Mammoth-fauna. Upper Palaeolithic hunters often are described as reindeer-hunters.

2023年4月15日 · For centuries, reindeer herding has been an integral part of the subsistence, lifeways, economy and cosmology of the Sámi of northern Fennoscandia. Despite its importance, the timing and details...

2011年6月1日 · The results exhibit geographic and temporal variations of reindeer and horse body size. Reindeer can be used as a suitable ecological marker, as rapid changes are correlated to environmental turnover, whereas the horse presents a different pattern and is an accurate chronological estimator.

2011年6月1日 · Woerden, in the central part of The Netherlands, is a locality where the amateur-archaeologist Pieter Stoel collected several thousands of fossil mammalian remains of Pleistocene age.

Thirty-six reindeer antler artefacts were identified from 11 Iberian sites that are located at either end of the Pyrenees: the Cantabrian region to the west, and to a lesser extent, in Catalonia to the east.

The earliest published evidence for reindeer on Svalbard is based on reindeer faeces that were found in peat deposits radiocarbon-dated to 3800–5000 years BP 59 whereas ancient antlers were recently dated up to 7,080 years BP (M. Le Moullec, B. B. …

2020年6月17日 · With help from contemporary Indigenous Nenets reindeer herders, the researchers have identified these artifacts — the earliest came from the Ust’-Polui site and is at least 2,000 years old — as headgear parts for training young reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) in …

2024年2月20日 · Here, we used 174 ancient, historical and modern mitogenomes to reconstruct the phylogeny of reindeer across its whole range and to infer the colonisation route of the Arctic islands. Our data...