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3Rd International Mammoth Conference Program and Abstracts Palaeontology Program Government of the Yukon Occasional Papers in Earth Sciences No. 5 3rd INTERNATIONAL MAMMOTH CONFERENCE, 2003: PROGRAM AND ABSTRACTS Yukon Palaeontology Program Occasional Papers in Earth Sciences Editorial Committee Chair: Jeff Hunston Manager, Heritage Resources Editor: John E. Storer Yukon Palaeontologist Objectives of the Series The Palaeontology Program series Occasional Papers in Earth Sciences is designed to provide for the timely dissemination of technical reports, conference workshop proceedings, and dissertations relating to earth sciences research in the Yukon. The publication of these materials contributes to the realization of Government of Yukon’s heritage programming mandate: to develop, enhance, and preserve the Yukon’s heritage resources and communicate an appreciation and understanding of the Yukon’s heritage to Yukoners and Yukon visitors. In order to expedite timely publication of research results and keep publication costs to a minimum, manuscripts are submitted ready for printing. Errors are the responsibility of the author(s). Obtaining Copies Copies can be obtained from: Yukon Palaeontologist Department of Tourism and Culture Government of Yukon Box 2703 (L-2A) Whitehorse, Yukon CANADA Y1A 2C6 Phone: (867)667-8089 Fax: (867)667-5377 Web page: www.yukonheritage.com Palaeontology Program Government of the Yukon Occasional Papers in Earth Sciences No. 5 3rd INTERNATIONAL MAMMOTH CONFERENCE, 2003: PROGRAM AND ABSTRACTS Edited by John E. Storer YUKON Palaeontology Program Department of Tourism and Culture Elaine Taylor, Minister 2003 3rd INTERNATIONAL MAMMOTH CONFERENCE DAWSON CITY AND WHITEHORSE, YUKON MAY 24 – 29, 2003 HOST COMMITTEE Jeff Hunston, Conference Chair Beth King, General Secretary Drew Ball Bruce Barrett Greg Hare Bill LeBarge Paul Matheus John Storer PROGRAM Saturday, May 24 Evening 6:30 – 9:00 PM: Opening reception, Yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre, Whitehorse Sunday, May 25 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM: Buses take delegates to Dawson City Evening 6:30 – 9:00 PM: Welcoming reception and opening of fossil show and Ice Age art show, Dawson City Museum Monday, May 26 Morning 8:00 AM: Conference opens, Dawson City Odd Fellows Hall (Arts Centre) 8:00 – 8:10 AM: Brief remarks by Conference Chair 8:10 – 8:20 AM: Greetings from Government of Yukon 8:20 – 8:30 AM: Greetings from City of Dawson (Glen Everitt, Mayor) 8:40 – 10:00 AM: Session 1, Mammoth Evolution and Taxonomy 10:00 – 10:20 AM: Refreshment Break 10:20 – 11:40 AM: Session 2, Mammoth Expeditions 11:40 AM – 1:00 PM: Lunch Break Afternoon 1:00 – 3:00 PM: Session 3: Some North American Mammoth Sites 3:00 – 6:00 PM: Poster Session. Presenters will be expected to stay with their posters for discussion 1 3:00 – 6:00 PM: Dawson City Museum, Demonstration of sampling mammoth tusk for stable isotope analysis, by Dan Fisher Evening 6:00 – 8:00 PM: Reception, Forty Mile Placers, Co-Sponsored by Yukon Placer Miners Association 8:00 – 10:00 PM: Public Lecture, Tr'ondek Hwech'in Cultural Centre: Dick Mol and Ralf-Dietrich Kahlke: Mammoths by Land and Sea Tuesday, May 27 Morning 8:00 – 10:20 AM: Session 4: Stable Isotopes and DNA 10:20 – 10:40 AM: Refreshment Break 10:40 – 11:40 AM: Session 5: Replacement Events for the Mammoth Fauna 11:40 AM – 1:00 PM: Lunch Break Afternoon 1:00 – 2:40 PM: Session 6: Ice Age Hunters 2:40 – 3:00 PM: Coffee Break 3:00 – 3:40 PM: Session 7: Mammoth/Human Interactions 3:40 – 4:40 PM: Session 8: Special Elements of the Mammoth Fauna Evening 7:00 – 9:00 PM: Public Lecture Sponsored by Yukon Science Institute, Tr'ondek Hwech'in Cultural Centre: Evgeny Maschenko: Excavations at the Lugovskoye Site, Western Siberia: The Northernmost Mammoth Hunting Site in Siberia Wednesday, May 28 Morning 8:20 – 9:40 AM: Session 9: Paleoecology and Behavior in the Mammoth Fauna 9:40 – 10:00 AM: Refreshment Break 10:00 – 11:40 AM: Session 10: Extinction of the Mammoth Fauna 11:40 AM – 1:00 PM: Lunch Break Afternoon 1:00 – 4:20 PM: Session 11: Composition and Distribution of the Mammoth Fauna 2:40 – 3:00 PM: Refreshment Break 4:20 – 4:30 PM: Invitation to the 4th International Mammoth Conference 4:30 – 4:40 PM: Summary of the Conference 4:40 – 5:00 PM: Closing Remarks by the Conference Chair 2 Evening 6:30 – 10:00 PM: Conference Banquet, Palace Grand Theatre Thursday, May 29 8:00 AM – 6:00 PM: Field trip to the Klondike Goldfields Friday, May 30 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM: Buses return delegates to Whitehorse 3 4 TALKS AND POSTERS, BY SESSION Monday, May 26 8:40-10:00 AM: SESSION 1: MAMMOTH EVOLUTION AND TAXONOMY 8:40 Andrei SHER, Svetlana KUZMINA, Sergey KISELYOV, and Adrian LISTER. TUNDRA-STEPPE ENVIRONMENT IN ARCTIC SIBERIA AND THE EVOLUTION OF THE WOOLLY MAMMOTH 9:00 George E. McDANIEL, Jr. and George T. JEFFERSON. PHYLOGENY AND CHRONOLOGY OF Mammuthus IN NORTH AMERICA 9:20 Evgeny MASCHENKO. INDIVIDUAL DEVELOPMENT AND BIOLOGY OF THE WOOLLY MAMMOTH (Mammuthus primigenius BLUMENBACH, 1799) 9:40 Lenka SEDLÁČKOVA. OSTEOMETRIC COMPARISON OF THE POSTCRANIAL SKELETON IN FOSSIL REPRESENTATIVES OF THE FAMILY ELEPHANTIDAE FROM CHOSEN EUROPEAN LOCALITIES 10:20 – 11:40 AM: SESSION 2: MAMMOTH EXPEDITIONS 10:20 Nikolaj K. VERESCHAGIN and Tatiana N. VERESCHAGINA. ARCTIC EXPEDITIONS OF ZOOLOGICAL INSTITUTE FOR MAMMOTHS (1970-2000). PHOTO ALBUM 10:40 Sergey V. LESHCHINSKIY and Elena M. BURKANOVA. KOCHEGUR, A NEW LOCALITY FOR MAMMOTH REMAINS IN THE SHESTAKOVO BEAST SOLONETZ DISTRICT (WESTERN SIBERIA) 11:00 Petr LAZAREV, Gennadiy BOESKOROV, Egor VASILYEV, and Albert PROTOPOPOV. NEW FINDS OF MAMMOTH REMAINS IN YAKUTIA 11:20 VLADIMIR E. TUMSKOY. PERMAFROST PROCESSES AS A FACTOR OF MAMMOTH FAUNA CONSERVATION (NOVAYA SIBIR ISLAND) 1:00 – 3:00 PM: SESSION 3: SOME NORTH AMERICAN MAMMOTH SITES 1:00 DANIEL J. JOYCE. CHRONOLOGY AND CURRENT RESEARCH ON THE SCHAEFER MAMMOTH (?Mammuthus primigenius), KENOSHA COUNTY, WISCONSIN 1:20 Christopher L. HILL. MAMMOTH (Mammuthus) WITHIN THE UPPER MISSOURI AND YELLOWSTONE BASINS, NORTH AMERICA: CHRONOLOGY, STRATIGRAPHY, AND PALEOECOLOGY 1:40 Eileen JOHNSON. THE TAPHONOMY OF MAMMOTH LOCALITIES IN SOUTHEASTERN WISCONSIN (USA) 5 2:00 Steven R. HOLEN. PALEOECOLOGY AND TAPHONOMY OF FULL GLACIAL MAXIMUM MAMMOTH LOCALITIES IN THE CENTRAL GREAT PLAINS OF NORTH AMERICA 2:20 Olga POTAPOVA. SPECIMEN COLLECTION AND METHODS OF MAMMOTH BONE PRESERVATION AT THE HOT SPRINGS MAMMOTH SITE, HOT SPRINGS, SOUTH DAKOTA 2:40 Bart A. WEIS. PUBLIC INVOLVEMENT IN EXCAVATION AND PREPARATION OF THE STONEGATE MAMMOTH, PARKER, COLORADO: ONE OF THE OLDEST MAMMOTHS (Mammuthus colombi) RECORDED IN COLORADO 3:00 – 6:00 PM: POSTER SESSION Kim AARIS-SØRENSEN, JEPPE MØHL, and Knud ROSENLUND. A DANISH MAMMOTH ON DISPLAY Larry D. AGENBROAD, John JOHNSON, Don MORRIS, and Thomas W. Stafford, Jr. MAMMOTHS AND HUMANS AS LATE PLEISTOCENE CONTEMPORARIES ON SANTA ROSA ISLAND, CHANNEL ISLANDS NATIONAL PARK, CALIFORNIA Joaquín ARROYO-CABRALES, Oscar J. POLACO, and Eileen JOHNSON. MAMMOTH AND MAN, THEIR COEXISTENCE IN MEXICO Jessie ATTERHOLT, Michael GUBEREK, and George T. JEFFERSON. A NEWLY DISCOVERED SUBADULT AND JUVENILE Mammuthus SITE AT THE ANZA BORREGO DESERT STATE PARK®, SOUTHEASTERN CALIFORNIA, USA Bax R. BARTON. THE MOXEE-ALEXANDRIA MAMMOTH TUSK AND OTHER MAMMOTH REMAINS FROM YAKIMA COUNTY, WASHINGTON STATE, USA Dmitryi BOLSHIYANOV and Alexei TIKHONOV. DISTRIBUTION OF MAMMOTHS ON THE BANKS OF TAIMYR LAKE Margarita A. ERBAJEVA, Jim I. MEAD, and Sandra L. SWIFT. EVOLUTION AND DEVELOPMENT OF ASIAN AND NORTH AMERICAN OCHOTONIDS Irina V. FORONOVA. HISTORY OF MAMMOTH LINEAGE IN THE SOUTHERN PART OF CENTRAL SIBERIA Russell Wm. GRAHAM, Bart A. WEIS, and Steven R. HOLEN. MAMMOTHS (Mammuthus) IN COLORADO, USA Eileen Johnson. MAMMOTH BONE TECHNOLOGY AND SUBSISTENCE STRATEGIES IN THE LATE PLEISTOCENE NORTH AMERICAN GRASSLANDS Janis KLIMOWICZ and Gary HAYNES. WHAT'S PRESENT IS PAST: MAMMOTH BEHAVIOR INTERPRETED THROUGH ACTUALISTIC STUDIES OF MODERN ELEPHANTS 6 Tatiana V. KUZNETSOVA, Leopold D. SULERZHITSKY, Andrei ANDREEV, Christina SIEGERT, Lutz SCHIRRMEISTER, and H.- W. HUBBERTEN. INFLUENCE OF LATE QUATERNARY PALEOENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS ON THE DISTRIBUTION OF MAMMALS IN THE LAPTEV SEA REGION Petr LAZAREV, Albert PROTOPOPOV, and Grigoriy SAVVINOV. THE NEW PROSPECTS OF ORGANIZATION OF THE PALEONTOLOGIC EXPEDITIONS TO THE NORTH OF YAKUTIA Adrian M. LISTER and Hans van ESSEN. THE EARLIEST MAMMOTHS IN EUROPE Sophie LOUGUET. WAS Mammuthus intermedius PRESENT IN THE PLEISTOCENE SITE OF HANHOFFEN (BAS-RHIN, FRANCE)? Anatoly V. LOZHKIN and Patricia M. ANDERSON. PRESERVED WOOLY MAMMOTHS (Mammuthus primigenius) AND ASSOCIATED PALYNOLOGICAL SPECTRA FROM NORTHEAST SIBERIA Evgeny MASCHENKO, Sergey LEV, and Natalia BUROVA. ZARAYSK LATE PALAEOLITHIC SITE: MAMMOTH ASSEMBLAGE, AGE PROFILE AND TAPHONOMY Paul MATHEUS, R. Dale GUTHRIE, and Michael L. KUNZ. PREDATOR- PREY LINKS IN PLEISTOCENE EAST BERINGIA: EVIDENCE FROM STABLE ISOTOPES Paul MATHEUS, R. Dale GUTHRIE, and Michael L. KUNZ. ISOTOPE ECOLOGY OF LATE QUATERNARY MEGAFAUNA IN EASTERN BERINGIA George E. McDANIEL, Jr. and George T. JEFFERSON. MAMMOTHS IN OUR MIDST: THE PROBOSCIDEANS OF ANZA-BORREGO DESERT STATE PARK®, SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, USA George E. McDANIEL, Jr. and George T. JEFFERSON. REGIONAL VARIATION IN Mammuthus columbi (PROBOSCIDEA, ELEPHANTIDAE) BASED ON THE DENTAL PARAMETERS OF A POPULATION OF MAMMOTH MOLARS FROM A GRAVEL QUARRY IN SOUTHERN TEXAS, USA Richard E. MORLAN. SOME PRIMITIVE MAMMOTH TEETH FROM OLD CROW LOC. 47, NORTHERN YUKON Valentin NESIN and Leonid REKOVETS. KOPACHIV – A NEW PALEOLITHIC CAMP OF MAMMOTH HUNTERS IN UKRAINE Laura NIVEN and Piotr WOJTAL. PALEOECOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS OF TOOTH PATHOLOGIES IN Mammuthus primigenius: EXAMPLES FROM CENTRAL EUROPE Maria Rita PALOMBO, Sergio GINESU, and Stefania SIAS. Mammuthus lamarmorai (MAJOR, 1883) REMAINS IN THE MIDDLE PLEISTOCENE ALLUVIAL DEPOSITS OF CAMPU GIAVESU PLAIN (NORTH WESTERN SARDINIA; ITALY) Olga POTAPOVA. RED-BREASTED GOOSE (Rufibrenta ruficollis Pall., 1769) ABOVE THE HEADS OF MAMMOTHS IN EUROPE 7 John E. STORER. ADVANCES IN THE ICE AGE BIOSTRATIGRAPHY OF EASTERN BERINGIA Leopold D. SULERZHITSKY. RADIOCARBON DATING: IMPLICATIONS FOR PALEOENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES OF MEGAFAUNA Janis D.
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