title: On the Pleistocene extinctions of Alaskan mammoths and horses.
abstract: The fossil record has been used to shed light on the late Pleistocene megafaunal extinctions in North America and elsewhere. It is therefore important to account for variability due to the incompleteness of the fossil record and error in dating fossil remains. Here, a joint confidence region for the extinction times of horses and mammoths in Alaska is constructed. The results suggest that a prior claim that the extinction of horses preceded the arrival of humans cannot be made with confidence.
authors.affiliation: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA. asolow@shoi.edu
authors.forename: Andrew R
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: Solow
authors.forename: David L
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Roberts
authors.forename: Karen M
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: Robbirt
mesh_terms: D000413:Alaska; D000818:Animals; D002250:Carbon Radioisotopes; D005580:Fossils; D006736:Horses; D013997:Time Factors
chemical_list: D002250:Carbon Radioisotopes