THE MAMMOTH POPULATION (Mammuthus primigenius Blum.) IN NORTHERN ASIA: DYNAMICS AND HABITAT CONDITIONS IN THE LATE GLACIAL
L.A. Orlova, Ya.V. Kuz'min*, V.N. Zenin**, and V.N. Dement'ev***
Institute of Geology, Siberian Branch of the RAS, 3 prosp. Akad. Koptyuga, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia
* Pacific Institute of Geography, Far Eastern Branch of the RAS, 7 ul. Radio, Vladivostok, 690041, Russia
** Institute of Archeology and Ethnography, Siberian Branch of the RAS,
17 prosp. Akad. Lavrent'eva, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia
*** Novosibirsk Regional Center of GIS-Technologies, Siberian Branch of the RAS,
3 prosp. Akad. Koptyuga, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia
Keywords: Mammoth, radiocarbon dating, calibration of radiocarbon dates, Late Glacial, Northern Asia, southern West Siberia, Volch'ya Griva
Pages: 774-783
Abstract
On the basis of 53 radiocarbon data from the range 15-9.7 Ka, we have reconstructed the dynamics of mammoth populations in Northern Asia in the Late Glacial and early Holocene. The latest data (12-9.7 Ka) have been calibrated. Within continental Asia, the last mammoths died out on Taimyr around 11,000 cal. yr BP (9.7 kyr BCE). Using paleogeographic data, we tentatively reconstructed the natural habitat of mammoths in Siberia in the Late Glacial. The Volch'ya Griva occurrence in southern West Siberia, for which a radiocarbon date of around 11.1 Ka was obtained, could play a key role in the revision of the dynamics of mammoth distribution after 12 Ka.
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