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Radiocarbon Ages of Mammoths in Northern Eurasia: Implications for Population Development and Late Quaternary Environment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

Yurij Vasil'Chuk ,
Jaan-Mati Punning  and
Alla Vasil'Chuk
Yurij Vasil'Chuk
Affiliation:
Department of Theoretical Problems, Russian Academy of Science, Denezhnyj per. 12, 121002 Moscow, Russia
Jaan-Mati Punning
Affiliation:
Institute of Ecology, Kevade 2, EE0001 Tallinn, Estonia
Alla Vasil'Chuk
Affiliation:
Institute of Cell Biophysics, Russian Academy of Science, 142292 Pushchino, Moscow Region, Russia
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Many mammoth remains have been radiocarbon-dated. We present here more than 360 14C dates on bones, tusks, molars and soft tissues of mammoths and discuss some issues connected with the evolution of mammoths and their environment: the problem of the last mammoth; mammoth taphonomy; the plant remains and stable isotope records accompanying mammoth fossils; paleoclimate during the time of the mammoths and dating of host sediments. The temporal distribution of the 14C dates of fossils from the northern Eurasian territory is even for the entire period from 40 to 10 ka bp.

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Radiocarbon , Volume 39 , Issue 1 , 1997 , pp. 1 - 18
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