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Lugovskoe, Western Siberia: A Possible Extra-Arctic Mammoth Refugium at the End of the Late Glacial

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

Lyobov A Orlova ,
Vasily N Zenin ,
Anthony J Stuart ,
Thomas F G Higham ,
Pieter M Grootes ,
Sergei V Leshchinsky ,
Yaroslav V Kuzmin ,
Aleksander F Pavlov  and
Evgeny N Maschenko
Lyobov A Orlova*
Affiliation:
Institute of Geology, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Koptyug Ave. 3, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia.
Vasily N Zenin
Affiliation:
Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Lavrentiev Ave. 17, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia.
Anthony J Stuart
Affiliation:
Department of Biology, University College London, Gower St., London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom.
Thomas F G Higham
Affiliation:
Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit, University of Oxford, 6 Keble Rd., Oxford OX1 3QJ, United Kingdom.
Pieter M Grootes
Affiliation:
Leibniz-Labor, Christian Albrechts University, Max-Eyth-Str. 11, 24118 Kiel, Germany.
Sergei V Leshchinsky
Affiliation:
Tomsk State University, Lenin Ave 36, Tomsk 634050; Russia.
Yaroslav V Kuzmin
Affiliation:
Pacific Institute of Geography, Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Radio St. 7, Vladivostok 690041, Russia.
Aleksander F Pavlov
Affiliation:
Museum of Nature and Humans, Mira St. 11, Khanty-Mansiysk 628011; Russia.
Evgeny N Maschenko
Affiliation:
Paleontological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Profsoyuznaya St. 123, Moscow 117647, Russia.
*
Corresponding author. Email: orlova@uiggm.nsc.ru.
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Eleven woolly mammoth bone samples from Lugovskoe (central West Siberian Plain, Russia) were radiocarbon dated in 3 laboratories: Institute of Geology, Novosibirsk; Oxford University, Oxford; and Christian Albrechts University, Kiel. Each laboratory used its own protocol for collagen extraction. Parallel dating was carried out on 3 samples in Novosibirsk and Oxford. Two results are in good agreement. However, there is a major discrepancy between 2 dates obtained for the third sample. The dates obtained so far on the Lugovskoe mammoths range from about 18,250 BP to about 10,210 BP. The Lugovskoe results thus far confirm the possibility of woolly mammoth survival south of Arctic Siberia in the Late Glacial after about 12,000 BP, which has important implications for interpreting the process of mammoth extinction. The site has also produced the first reliable traces of human occupation from central Western Siberia at the Late Glacial, including unique direct evidence of mammoth hunting.

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Radiocarbon , Volume 46 , Issue 1: Proceedings of the 18th International Radiocarbon Conference (Part 1 of 2), Conference Editors: Nancy Beavan Athfield, Rodger J Sparks , 2004 , pp. 363 - 368
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Copyright © 2004 by the Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of the University of Arizona 

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