Evidence for human modification of a Late Pleistocene bison (bison sp.) bone from the Klondike District, Yukon Territory, Canada.
ABSTRACT. A 31 000 BP bison limb bone from Nugget Gulch near Dawson City, Yukon, shows a "ring crack" considered to be a human-made impact mark resulting in exposure of marrow. This bone is approximately contemporaneous with wolf, horse, and Dall sheep specimens found on an ancient Mid-Wisconsinan terrain...

Great mining camps of Canada 1. The history and geology of the Keno Hill Silver Camp, Yukon Territory.
SUMMARY The Keno Hill Camp was one of The Great Mining Camps of Canada; it was not only Canada's second largest primary silver producer and one of the richest Ag-Pb-Zn vein deposits ever mined in the world, it was also one of the mainstays of the Yukon...

Paleoethological reconstruction and taphonomy of Equus lambei from the Bluefish Caves, Yukon Territory, Canada.
1 Department of Anthropology, University of Manitoba, 435 Fletcher Argue Building, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3T 5V5, Canada; aburke@cc.umanitoba.ca 2 Archaeological Survey of Canada, Canadian Museum of Civilization, 100 Laurier Street, P.O. Box 3100, Station B, Hull, Quebec J8X 4H2, Canada (Received 29 October 1996; accepted in revised form 3 November 1997)...

Hydrometeorology, suspended sediment and conductivity in a large glacierized basin, Slims River, Yukon Territory, Canada (1993-94).
(Received 9 November 1998; accepted in revised form 8 June 1999) ABSTRACT. The Slims River was monitored for global solar radiation, air temperature, discharge, suspended sediment, and dissolved load in 1993 and 1994. Peak seasonal discharge occurred late in the summer and reflects a typical glacierized basin hydrograph, with increased...

The role of glacial lakes in the pre-contact human history of southwest Yukon territory: a late drainage hypothesis.
Abstract: Archaeological site KaVn-2, located in the White River valley near Beaver Creek in the southwest Yukon, was first occupied between 10,130 and 10,670 BP, shortly after the area became deglaciated at around 11,000 BR Despite the early occupation of KaVn-2 just after glacial retreat, and the presence of...

Grasslands of the Aishihik-Sekulmun Lakes Area, Yukon Territory, Canada.
(Received 9 November 1998; accepted in revised form 21 December 1999) ABSTRACT. Grassland communities found on dry, steep, south-facing slopes in the Aishihik-Sekulmun Lakes area, southwest Yukon Territory, are dominated by Artemisia frigida and Carex filifolia, with Calamagrostis purpurascens, Poa glauca, Penstemon gormanii, Phlox hoodii, and Potentilla...

Northern research endowment recipients.
Northern Research Endowment Recipients 1992 Principal Amount Investigator Project Title Awarded ARMOUR, Robin Production and a publication $4,500 based on the photographs and movies of the Claudd Tidd collection ... at Yukon Archives & MacBride Museum BODALY, R. A. Research on the genetic $2,000 speciation of Squanga whitefish Champagne-...

Late quaternary vegetation history of Sulphur Lake, Southwest Yukon Territory, Canada.
(Received 9 November 1998; accepted in revised form 9 June 1999) ABSTRACT. Paleoecological studies based on the analysis of pollen in lake sediments offer the potential for high resolution and well-dated independent records of past vegetation and climate. A 5 m sediment core was raised from the deepest section of...

Faunal and Archaeological Remains as Evidence of Climate Change in Freezing Caverns, Yukon Territory, Canada.
BERNARD LAURIOL [1,2] CLEMENT PREVOST [3] ERIC DESCHAMPS [1] JACQUES CINQ-MARS [4] SYLVAIN LABRECQUE [5] (Received 7 June 2000; accepted in revised form 11 September 2000) ABSTRACT. Animal and plant remains, some associated with prehistoric artefacts, were...

A new skin for an old drum: changing contexts of Yukon Aboriginal Baha'i storytelling.
Abstract: This article examines the construction of the religious self through the storytelling processes of Yukon Aboriginal Baha'is. Previous anthropological work has studied the social factors involved in the maintenance of faith amongst Aboriginal Baha'is. This sociological study focuses on the manner in which people put together stories to...