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(I ask for paleoart purposes) what animals lived in the northeastern, more specifically New England, even most specifically massachusetts/cape cod. I want to make a peice with some megafauna that lived during the Younger Dryas, and mabe some early humans if my inability to draw humans becomes at least somewhat better. Thank you!

How Early Humans May Have Transformed L.A.’s Landscape Forever Science Friday, NPR, August 25, 2023 Uncovering Death by Fire 13,000 years ago Micheal Price, Sciences News, August 17, 2023 La Brea Tar Pits Reveal Clues to Mysterious Mass Extinction By Shana Hutchins, Futurity, August 18, 2023 The paywalled paper is: O’Keefe, F.R., Dunn, R.E., Weitzel, E.M., Waters, M.R., Martinez, L.N., Binder, W.J., Southon, J.R., Cohen, J.E., Meachen, J.A., DeSantis, L.R. and Kirby, M.E., 2023. Pre–Younger Dryas megafaunal extirpation at Rancho La Brea linked to fire-driven state shift. Science, 381(6659), p.eabo3594. Yours, Paul H.

Controversial impact crater under Greenland’s ice is surprisingly ancient New date of 58 million years undercuts idea that strike triggered recent 1000-year plunge in temperatures By Paul Voose, Science News, March, 9, 2022 Giant impact crater in Greenland occurred a few million years after dinosaurs went extinct by University of Copenhagen, PhysOrg Wikipedia article discussing Hiawatha impact structure The open access paper is: Kenny, G. G., and others, 2022, A Late Paleocene age for Greenland’s Hiawatha impact structure. Science Advances. vol. 8, no. 10 Yours, Paul H.

Texas cave sediment upends meteorite explanation for global cooling by Baylor University August 1, 2020 https://phys.org/news/2020-07-texas-cave-sediment-upends-meteorite.html The paper is: Sun, N, Brandon, A.D., Forman, S.L., Waters, M.R. and Befus, K.S., 2020. Volcanic origin for Younger Dryas geochemical anomalies ca. 12,900 cal B.P. Science Advances, 6(31), eaax8587 https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/31/eaax8587 Related papers: Holliday, V.T., Bartlein, P.J., Scott, A.C. and Marlon, J.R., 2020. Extraordinary biomass-burning episode and impact winter triggered by the Younger Dryas cosmic impact∼ 12,800 years ago, parts 1 and 2: a discussion. The Journal of Geology, 128(1), pp.69-94. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/706264 Wolbach, W.S., Ballard, J.P., Mayewski, P.A., Kurbatov, A., Bunch, T.E., LeCompte, M.A., Adedeji, V., Israde-Alcántara, I., Firestone, R.B., Mahaney, W.C. and Melott, A.L., 2020. Extraordinary Biomass-Burning Episode and Impact Winter Triggered by the Younger Dryas Cosmic Impact∼ 12,800 Years Ago: A Reply. The Journal of Geology, 128(1), pp.95-107. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/706265 Yours, Paul H.

New evidence that an extraterrestrial collision 12,800 years ago triggered an abrupt climate change for Earth, the Conversation, October 22, 2019 https://theconversation.com/new-evidence-that-an-extraterrestrial-collision-12-800-years-ago-triggered-an-abrupt-climate-change-for-earth-118244 the paper is: Moore, C.R., M.J. Brooks, A.C. Goodyear, T.A. Ferguson, A.G. Perrotti, S. Mitra, A. Listecki, B. King, D.J. Mallinson, C.S. Lane, B. Shapiro, J. Knapp, A. West, D.L. Carlson, W. Wolbach, T.R. Them, S.M. Harris, and S. Pyne-O’Donnell. 2019. Sediment Cores from White Pond, South Carolina, contain a platinum anomaly, pyrogenic carbon peak, and coprophilous spore decline at 12.8 ka. Scientific Reports volume 9, Article number: 15121 (2019) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-51552-8 Regardless of how the platinum anomaly is interpreted, White Pond, a Carolina Bay predates it and the Younger Dryas. Thus, the above paper further supports the idea that the Carolina Bays are not connected to Younger Dryas event as concluded by: Schaetzl, R.J., Sauck, W., Heinrich, P.V., Colgan, P.M. and Holliday, V.T., 2019. Commentary on Klokočník, J., Kostelecký, and Bezděk, A. 2019. The putative Saginaw impact structure, Michigan, Lake Huron, in the light of gravity aspects derived from recent EIGEN 6C4 gravity field model. Journal of Great Lakes Research 45: 12–20. A related paper is: Krause, T.R., Russell, J.M., Zhang, R., Williams, J.W. and Jackson, S.T., 2019. Late Quaternary vegetation, climate, and fire history of the Southeast Atlantic Coastal Plain based on a 30,000-yr multi-proxy record from White Pond, South Carolina, USA. Quaternary Research, 91(2), pp.861-880. Vancouver Yours Paul H.

Asteroids, Micro Diamonds, and the Younger Dryas with Jens Notroff: Archaeological Fantasies Ep 106 Archaeological Fantasies Podcast https://player.fm/series/archaeological-fantasies-podcast/asteroids-micro-diamonds-and-the-younger-dryas-with-jens-notroff-archaeological-fantasies-ep-106 https://player.fm/series/archaeological-fantasies-podcast The Deus ex machina for the destruction of civilizations, either imaginary or real, seems to be comet impacts. Remix – Atlantis in Sardinia with Dr. Emily Holt Archaeological Fantasies ep 107 https://player.fm/series/archaeological-fantasies-podcast/remix-atlantis-in-sardinia-with-dr-emily-holt-archaeological-fantasies-ep-107 https://player.fm/series/archaeological-fantasies-podcast Yours, Paul H.