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Pleistocene Proboscidean Fossils from the Alaskan Continental Shelf

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

E. James Dixon
E. James Dixon*
Affiliation:
University of Alaska Museum, Fairbanks, Alaska 99701 USA
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Abstract

Pleistocene proboscidean fossils recovered from the Bering Land Bridge strengthen the hypothesis that man may have originally colonized the Americas via this route during times of lowered sea level.

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Quaternary Research , Volume 20 , Issue 1 , July 1983 , pp. 113 - 119
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University of Washington

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