The Last Giant of Beringia

A

Acosta, Fray José de

Acosta land bridge theory, A.D. 1590

Adams, Florence

African savanna

Alaska Branch. See U.S. Geological Survey

Alaska Quaternary Center

Aleutian Islands

American Museum of Natural History

ancient climate

Anderson, Douglas

animal migration, explanation

Arctic Coastal Plain

Avatcha Volcano

B

Baldwin Peninsula

illustrated, Cape Krusenstern

bear, short-faced

Berezovka River

Beringian plant communities

Bering Land Bridge

fauna, illustrated

plants (preserved by volcanic ash)

pulses of human migration

Bering Land Bridge National Preserve, as tribute to Hopkins

bestiary of Beringia

biological refugium

Bowman, Isaiah Forest Physiography (1911)

Brigham-Grette, Julie

Broken Mammoth site

Brown University

Buktopochi, Boris

Bunnell, Charles

Burg Wartenstein conference (1976)

Butterfield, Isaac

C

Cape Krusenstern

Choris Peninsula

Chuk (camp dog)

field trip (1992)

clams (as human food)

climate history

coastwise migration theory

Cold Bay, Alaska

Colinvaux, Paul

Cook, Captain James

Cordilleran Ice Sheet

Cottonwood Creek

D

1590 Acosta’s original land bridge theory

1702 Cotton Mather’s theory

1728 Vitus Bering sails to Alaska

1770 Whittemore cabin, Greenfield

1778 Cook describes Bering Strait

1779 Butterfield’s cabin, Greenfield

1791 Greenfield NH incorporated

1795 Greenfield NH meetinghouse erected

1831 legendary Greenfield murder

1873 Hopkins general store built

1885 Greenfield NH schoolhouse

1887 northern species’ similarities noted

1892 Pribilof Island mammoth bones found

1900 Berezovka mammoth recovered

1911 Bowman’s Physiography published

1915 William Oquilluk begins notebooks

1916 pollen analyses introduced

1920 Hultén to Kamchatka

1920s dental traits studied by Hrdlicka

1921 December 26, Dave Hopkins born

1931 Giddings graduates from U of Alaska

1932 Hultén to Aleutian Islands

1933 Campus site (Fairbanks) discovered

1934 Giddings’ Bering Strait work begins

1934 Hultén coins “Beringia”

1934 Johnson’s sea level history

1937 Hultén’s dissertation published

1939 Giddings at Ipiutak

1940 Giddings’ traverse, Allakaket to Kobuk

1941 Giddings at Onion Portage

1942 Hopkins begins doctoral work, Harvard

1942 Hopkins recruited to USGS

1943 Hopkins’ second Alaska trip, Matanuska

1944 Hopkins’ Army induction

1946 Hopkins’ Army discharge to USGS

1946 Hopkins resumes doctoral research

1948 Hopkins, Giddings first correspond

1948 Seward Peninsula fieldwork, USGS

1949 Larsen links Campus site and Trail Creek archeology

1950 Hopkins, Giddings visit in field

1950 Joan joins Dave’s fieldwork

1955 Dave and Joan move to Menlo Park

1959 Hopkins’ paper attracts Colinvaux to Imuruk Lake

1959 Hopkins publishes land bridge chronology, Science

1959 Hopkins visits Giddings at Krusenstern

1961 Giddings revisits Onion Portage

1964 Giddings’ death

1965 Boulder Land Bridge Conference held

1965 Hopkins hunts for sea canyons

1966 Campus site (Fairbanks) paved

1966 Guthrie, Matthews at Cape Deceit

1966 Hopkins befriends Andrei Sher

1966 Hopkins first ponders maars lakes

1967 Hopkins’ Bering Land Bridge book published

1970 Hopkins includes daughter Chindi in fieldwork

1972 Selerikan horse discovered, Siberia

1973 Khabarovsk conference

1974 Hopkins finds buried land bridge surface

1974-1988 Hopkins’ call for paleo-botanists unheeded

1976 Hopkins attends Austrian conference

1976 Monte Verde site found, Chile

1977 Siberian baby mammoth, Dima

1979 Hopkins paleoecology conference

1980 Alaska National Interest Lands Act

1982 Hopkins’ Paleoecology book published

1984 Hopkins retires from USGS

1988 Devil Mountain Lakes revisited, Hopkins’ appeal renewed

1990 Guthrie’s Frozen Fauna book

1992 Hopkins’ perilous Chukotka trip

1995 grad students describe ash-buried community as steppe

1996 polar desert advocates publish in Nature

1999 Hopkins moves back to Menlo Park

1999 mollusks used to date Strait opening

2000 Hopkins’ honorary degree, University of Alaska

2001 Hopkins’ medical setbacks, death

Deering, Alaska

dendrochronology

dental pattern. See teeth

Devil Mountain Lakes

Dima, the baby mammoth

Dixon, E. James

Douglass, Andrew

E

Eastern Siberia

Einarsson, Thorleifur

Eunice (ship)

F

first Americans

foot adaptations, Beringian ungulates

fossil mollusks

fossil ungulates, role in Beringia controversy

Frozen Fauna of the Mammoth Steppe Guthrie’s 1990 book

G

Gage, Mrs. Frank

Gallagher, Nora

Geological Society of America Bulletin

giant ground sloth

Giddings, Louis

Glacier Bay National Park

Gladenkov, Andrey

global temperatures

Goetcheus, Victoria (Wolf)

Gold Dust Twins

Goodwin, Willy, Jr.

graminoid (grass-type) plants

Greenberg, Joseph

Greenfield, New Hampshire

Greenland Ice Sheet

Guthrie, R. Dale

Gypson’s Woods (Greenfield)

H

Haffenreffer Museum

Hebe. See Hopkins, Henrietta (Moody)

Heilprin, Angelo

Heiser, Patricia

herbs (nonwoody plants)

Höfle, Claudia

Hopkins, Charles

Hopkins, Chindi (Peavy, Dave’s daughter)

Hopkins, Dan, (Dave’s brother)

Hopkins, Dona (Dave’s daughter)

Hopkins, David M.

health, heart condition

honorary doctorate

medical evacuation, Chukotka, 1992

as a natural historian

as a paleonaturalist

Ph.D. degree, Quaternary geology

Super Scientist pay grade

Hopkins, Dona (Dave’s sister)

Hopkins, Donald (Dave’s father)

Hopkins, Henrietta (Moody, Dave’s mother)

Hopkins, Joan (Prewitt)

Hopkins, Rachel (Chouinard)

Hopkins, Walter

Humphrey, Hubert (U.S. Vice President)

I

Ice Age. See Pleistocene Epoch

Ice Age, glacial maximum

Illinoian glaciation

interdisciplinary research

Interior Alaska

intertidal zone

J

Jacobsen, James

jasper lance point

K

Khabarovsk conference

Kimball, Daniel

Kommandor Bering (shipwreck)

Kontrimavichus, Vitautus

Kuzutrin Lake camp

L

symposium (1965)

land bridge species exchanges

last giant of Beringia

last glacial maximum. See Wisconsin glaciation

Laughlin, William

Laurentide Ice Sheet

loess (windblown silt)

Lund University

M

Mackenzie River

mammoth migration controversy

Marincovich, Louie

Matanuska Valley

Matthews, W. D.

Middle Stone Age artifacts

Mobley, Charles

Monadnock Mountain, New Hampshire

Monadnock region

Monte Verde site (Chile)

Muir Glacier, Glacier Bay, Alaska

N

National Academy of Sciences

National Park Service

National Science Foundation

Native American languages

Nature (journal)

North Atlantic Ocean

Nugnugaluktuk River

Nunyamaveyem Bluff, Chukotka

O

Oquilluk, William

P

People of the Kauwerak (book)

Peterborough High School

Phillips, Lawrence

Pleistocene Epoch duration

Post, Lennart von

potassium-argon dating technique

Powell, John Wesley

Predicrostonyx hopkinsi

Pribilof Canyon

Pribilof Islands, mammoth bones

Prince of Wales Island

Proctor, George

productivity paradox

Pushkar, Vladimir

Q

Quarterly Review of Archeology (journal)

Quaternary geology

R

radiocarbon dating

Rainey, Froelich

Repenning, Charles

as mirror image workers

S

S———, Miss

saber-toothed cat

sandhill cranes

Schneider, William

Schweger, Charlie

Science (journal)

Selerikan horse mummy

Selerikan River

Seward Peninsula

sexual reproduction (via pollen)

short-faced bear

Smithsonian Institution

St. Lawrence Island

Stanford University

submergence (last, land bridge)

Survey. See U. S. Geological Survey

T

tephra (volcanic ash)

Tertiary Period

The Bering Land Bridge, Hopkins’ 1967 book

The Paleoecology of Beringia, Hopkins’ 1982 book

Tomas, Marjorie

tree ring analysis, illustrated

Turner, Christy

U

U.S. Geological Survey

unglaciated Alaska during glacial maximum

unglaciated land

Universidad Austral de Chile

University of Alaska

University of Alberta

University of Arizona

University of Lund

University of New Hampshire

USGS. See U.S. Geological Survey

V

vegetative reproduction (via creeping stems)

vertebrate paleontology

W

Wahrhaftig, Clyde

Wallace, Douglas

Washington, D.C

West, Frederick

Weston, Reverend Mr.

Whittemore, Amos

Williams, Robert

Wisconsin glaciation

Wolf, Victoria Goetcheus

Workman, William

Y

Young, Steven B.

Yukon Territory

Z

Zegura, Stephen

Zhemchug Canyon