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Late Quaternary Mammalian Zoogeography of Eastern Washington

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

R. Lee Lyman  and
Stephanie D. Livingston
R. Lee Lyman
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon 97331 USA
Stephanie D. Livingston
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology DH-05, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195 USA
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Abstract

The late Quaternary mammalian zoogeographic history of eastern Washington as revealed by archaeological and paleontological research conforms to a set of past environmental conditions inferred from botanical data. During the relatively cool and moist late Pleistocene and early Holocene, Cervus cf. elaphus, Ovis canadensis, Vulpes vulpes, Martes americana, Alopex lagopus, and perhaps Rangifer sp., taxa with ecological preferences for mesic steppe habitats, were present in the now xeric Columbia Basin. As the climate became progressively warmer and drier during the late Pleistocene and early Holocene, Antilocapra americana, Onychomys leucogaster, Spermophilus townsendii, and Neotoma cinerea, taxa with ecological preferences for xeric steppe habitats, appear in the Columbia Basin. Bison sp. and Taxidea taxus may have been present in eastern Washington for the last 20,000 yr. Middle and late Holocene records for Oreamnos americanus, Spermophilus columbianus, S. townsendii, Lagurus curtatus, and Urocyon cinereoargenteus in central eastern Washington suggest fluctuations in the ranges of these taxa that conform to a middle Holocene period of less effective precipitation and a ca. 3500-yr-old period of more effective precipitation before essentially modern environmental conditions prevailed.

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Quaternary Research , Volume 20 , Issue 3 , November 1983 , pp. 360 - 373
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University of Washington

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