The Muskox Way: Humans, plants and animals in northeast Greenland through the Holocene
Inger Greve Alsos, Marieke Beaulieu, Nicholas L. Balascio, Lucas Elliott, Raymond S. Bradley, Sergi Pla‐Rabès, Santiago Giralt, Luisa Deppe, Youri Lammers, Jamie L. Alumbaugh, Peter D. Heintzman, Love Dalén, Anders Götherström, Sandra Nogué, Bianca Perren, , Jostein Bakke
The paper uses sedimentary ancient DNA to analyze the timing of plant and animal arrivals in northeast Greenland, showing muskox arrived before humans and environmental changes coincided with cultural periods.
bioRxiv · Oct 21, 2026 · PreprintEcology