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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Dec 14.
Published in final edited form as: Curr Biol. 2011 Jul 7;21(15):1251–1258. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2011.05.058

Figure 3. Ages and Geographic Locations of the Sampled Fossil British and Irish Brown Bears.

Figure 3

Locations of origin (A) and uncalibrated accelerator mass spectrometry radiocarbon ages and mtDNA clade assignments (B) for British and Irish bears included in study. The shaded area in (A) indicates the traditional limit of the last glacial maximum (LGM) in Ireland. However, recent work suggests that the shaded area probably represents a subsequent ice sheet readvance occurring 20.9–14.7 kya [32] and that Ireland was completely covered in ice from circa 27–23 kya [29, 31]. Details of the Irish bear samples and ancient DNA sequencing are provided in Table S2.