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Pleistocene Proboscidean Fossils from the Alaskan Continental Shelf

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

E. James Dixon*
Affiliation:
University of Alaska Museum, Fairbanks, Alaska 99701 USA

Abstract

Pleistocene proboscidean fossils recovered from the Bering Land Bridge strengthen the hypothesis that man may have originally colonized the Americas via this route during times of lowered sea level.

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Original Articles
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University of Washington

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