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American mastodon extirpation in the Arctic and Subarctic predates human colonization and terminal Pleistocene climate change

Grant D. Zazula, Ross D. E. MacPhee, Jessica Z. Metcalfe, Alberto V. Reyes, Fiona Brock, Patrick S. Druckenmiller, Pamela Groves, C. Richard Harington, Gregory W. L. Hodgins, Michael L. Kunz, Fred J. Longstaffe, Daniel H. Mann, H. Gregory McDonald, Shweta Nalawade-Chavan, and John R. Southon
PNAS published ahead of print December 1, 2014 https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1416072111
Grant D. Zazula
aYukon Palaeontology Program, Department of Tourism & Culture, Government of Yukon, Whitehorse, YT Y1A 2C6, Canada;
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Ross D. E. MacPhee
bDepartment of Mammalogy, Division of Vertebrate Zoology, and Gilder Graduate School, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY 10024;
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Jessica Z. Metcalfe
cDepartment of Anthropology, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1, Canada;
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Alberto V. Reyes
dDepartment of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2E3, Canada;
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Fiona Brock
eOxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit, Research Laboratory for Archaeology & History of Art, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3QY, United Kingdom;
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Patrick S. Druckenmiller
fDepartment of Earth Sciences, University of Alaska Museum, Fairbanks, AK 99775;gDepartment of Geosciences, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK 99775;
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Pamela Groves
hInstitute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK 99775;
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C. Richard Harington
iResearch Division (Paleobiology), Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottawa, ON K1P 6P4, Canada;
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Gregory W. L. Hodgins
jArizona AMS Facility, Department of Physics, and School of Anthropology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721-0081;
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Michael L. Kunz
kSchool of Natural Resources and Agricultural Science, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK 99775;
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Fred J. Longstaffe
lDepartment of Earth Sciences, The University of Western Ontario, London, ON N6A 5B7, Canada;
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Daniel H. Mann
gDepartment of Geosciences, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK 99775;
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H. Gregory McDonald
mMuseum Management Program, National Park Service, Fort Collins, CO 80525; and
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Shweta Nalawade-Chavan
eOxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit, Research Laboratory for Archaeology & History of Art, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3QY, United Kingdom;
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John R. Southon
nKeck-CCAMS Group, Earth System Science Department, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697-3100
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