Francois Lanoe

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• Lanoë, F., Reuther, J., Fields, S., Potter, B., Smith, G., McKinney, H., Halffman, C., Holmes, C., Mills, R., Crass, B., Frome, R., Hildebrandt, K., Sattler, R., Shirar, S., de Flamingh, A., Kemp, B. M., Malhi, R., & Witt, K. E. (2024). Late Pleistocene onset of mutualistic human/canid ( spp.) relationships in subarctic Alaska. Science advances, 10(49), eads1335.
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  Large canids (wolves, dogs, and coyote) and people form a close relationship in northern (subarctic and arctic) socioecological systems. Here, we document the antiquity of this bond and the multiple ways it manifested in interior Alaska, a region key to understanding the peopling of the Americas and early northern lifeways. We compile original and existing genomic, isotopic, and osteological canid data from archaeological, paleontological, and modern sites. Results show that in contrast to canids recovered in non-anthropic contexts, canids recovered in association with human occupations are markedly diverse. They include multiple species and intraspecific lineages, morphological variation, and diets ranging from terrestrial to marine. This variation is expressed along both geographic and temporal gradients, starting in the terminal Pleistocene with canids showing high marine dietary estimates. This paper provides evidence of the multiple ecological relationships between canids and people in the north-from predation, probable commensalism, and taming, to domestication-and of their early onset.
• Rider, D. F., Wolf, A. C., Murray, J., de Flamingh, A., Dos Santos, A. L., Lanoë, F., Zedeño, M. N., DeGiorgio, M., Lindo, J., & Malhi, R. S. (2024). Genomic analyses correspond with deep persistence of peoples of Blackfoot Confederacy from glacial times. Science advances, 10(14), eadl6595.
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  Mutually beneficial partnerships between genomics researchers and North American Indigenous Nations are rare yet becoming more common. Here, we present one such partnership that provides insight into the peopling of the Americas and furnishes another line of evidence that can be used to further treaty and Indigenous rights. We show that the genomics of sampled individuals from the Blackfoot Confederacy belong to a previously undescribed ancient lineage that diverged from other genomic lineages in the Americas in Late Pleistocene times. Using multiple complementary forms of knowledge, we provide a scenario for Blackfoot population history that fits with oral tradition and provides a plausible model for the evolutionary process of the peopling of the Americas.
• Rowe, A. G., Bataille, C. P., Baleka, S., Combs, E. A., Crass, B. A., Fisher, D. C., Ghosh, S., Holmes, C. E., Krasinski, K. E., Lanoë, F., Murchie, T. J., Poinar, H., Potter, B., Rasic, J. T., Reuther, J., Smith, G. M., Spaleta, K. J., Wygal, B. T., & Wooller, M. J. (2024). A female woolly mammoth's lifetime movements end in an ancient Alaskan hunter-gatherer camp. Science advances, 10(3), eadk0818.
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  Woolly mammoths in mainland Alaska overlapped with the region's first people for at least a millennium. However, it is unclear how mammoths used the space shared with people. Here, we use detailed isotopic analyses of a female mammoth tusk found in a 14,000-year-old archaeological site to show that she moved ~1000 kilometers from northwestern Canada to inhabit an area with the highest density of early archaeological sites in interior Alaska until her death. DNA from the tusk and other local contemporaneous archaeological mammoth remains revealed that multiple mammoth herds congregated in this region. Early Alaskans seem to have structured their settlements partly based on mammoth prevalence and made use of mammoths for raw materials and likely food.
• First, R. D., Crop, E., Murray, J., Flamingh, A., Santos, A. L., Lanoe, F., Zedeno, M. N., DeGiorgio, M., Lindo, J., & Malhi, R. S. (2023). Genomic analyses correspond with deep persistence of peoples of Blackfoot Confederacy from glacial times. bioRxiv, 2023--09.
• Kielhofer, J. R., Tierney, J. E., Reuther, J. D., Potter, B. A., Holmes, C. E., Lano"e, F. B., Esdale, J. A., Wooller, M. J., & Bigelow, N. H. (2023). BrGDGT temperature reconstruction from interior Alaska: Assessing 14,000 years of deglacial to Holocene temperature variability and potential effects on early human settlement. Quaternary Science Reviews, 303, 107979.
• Potter, B. A., Halffman, C. M., McKinney, H. J., Reuther, J. D., Finney, B. P., Lano"e, F. B., L'opez, J. A., Holmes, C. E., Palmer, E., Capps, M., & others, . (2023). Freshwater and anadromous fishing in Ice Age Beringia. Science Advances, 9(22), eadg6802.
• Reuther, J. D., Holmes, C. E., Smith, G. M., Lanoe, F. B., Crass, B. A., Rowe, A. G., & Wooller, M. J. (2023). THE SWAN POINT SITE, ALASKA: THE CHRONOLOGY OF A MULTI-COMPONENT ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE IN EASTERN BERINGIA. Radiocarbon, 1--28.