The technology of Stone Age colonization: an empirical, regional-scale examination of Clovis unifacial stone tool reduction, allometry, and edge angle from the North American Lower Great Lakes region

2013 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 2101-2112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Metin I. Eren
Keyword(s):  
Great Lakes ◽  
North American ◽  
Regional Scale ◽  
Stone Tool ◽  
Great Lakes Region ◽  
Stone Age ◽  
Edge Angle ◽  
The North

scholarly journals Effects of freshwater blue spaces may be beneficial for mental health: A first, ecological study in the North American Great Lakes region

PLoS ONE ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (8) ◽  
pp. e0221977 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amber L. Pearson ◽  
Ashton Shortridge ◽  
Paul L. Delamater ◽  
Teresa H. Horton ◽  
Kyla Dahlin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Great Lakes ◽  
North American ◽  
Ecological Study ◽  
Great Lakes Region ◽  
The North ◽  
North American Great Lakes

Revision of the North American genus Scirites (Araneae, Linyphiidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 1460 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
NADINE DUPÉRRÉ ◽  
PIERRE PAQUIN
Keyword(s):  
Great Lakes ◽  
North American ◽  
Type Species ◽  
Morphological Analysis ◽  
Washington State ◽  
Great Lakes Region ◽  
Widespread Species ◽  
Distribution Maps ◽  
The North ◽  
Sphagnum Bogs

The genus Scirites Bishop & Crosby (1938) is revised and now includes Scirites pectinatus (Emerton 1911) the type species, and Scirites finitimus n.sp. Diagnoses, descriptions, locality records, habitat information and distribution maps are given for both species. A morphological analysis places the genus in the distal erigonine clade of Miller & Hormiga (2004) and sister to (Tapinocyba (Ceratinops + Parapelecopsis). Scirites pectinatus is a widespread species occurring mostly north of the 40th parallel; S. finitimus has been collected from sphagnum bogs mostly in the Great Lakes region with a single isolated collection in Washington state.

scholarly journals Spatially explicit analysis sheds new light on the Pleistocene megafaunal extinction in North America

Paleobiology ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
pp. 642-655 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meaghan M. Emery-Wetherell ◽  
Brianna K. McHorse ◽  
Edward Byrd Davis
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Great Lakes ◽  
Human Activity ◽  
Late Pleistocene ◽  
North American ◽  
Human Populations ◽  
Great Lakes Region ◽  
Radiocarbon Dates ◽  
The North ◽  
Primary Driver

AbstractThe late Pleistocene megafaunal extinctions may have been the first extinctions directly related to human activity, but in North America the close temporal proximity of human arrival and the Younger Dryas climate event has hindered efforts to identify the ultimate extinction cause. Previous work evaluating the roles of climate change and human activity in the North American megafaunal extinction has been stymied by a reliance on geographic binning, yielding contradictory results among researchers. We used a fine-scale geospatial approach in combination with 95 megafaunal last-appearance and 75 human first-appearance radiocarbon dates to evaluate the North American megafaunal extinction. We used kriging to create interpolated first- and last-appearance surfaces from calibrated radiocarbon dates in combination with their geographic autocorrelation. We found substantial evidence for overlap between megafaunal and human populations in many but not all areas, in some cases exceeding 3000 years of predicted overlap. We also found that overlap was highly regional: megafauna had last appearances in Alaska before humans first appeared, but did not have last appearances in the Great Lakes region until several thousand years after the first recorded human appearances. Overlap in the Great Lakes region exceeds uncertainty in radiocarbon measurements or methodological uncertainty and would be even greater with sampling-derived confidence intervals. The kriged maps of last megafaunal occurrence are consistent with climate as a primary driver in some areas, but we cannot eliminate human influence from all regions. The late Pleistocene megafaunal extinction was highly variable in timing and duration of human overlap across the continent, and future analyses should take these regional trends into account.

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