Mammoth Extinction: Two Continents and Wrangel Island

A harvest of 300 radiocarbon dates on extinct elephants (Proboscidea) from the northern parts of the New and Old Worlds has revealed a striking difference. While catastrophic in North America, elephant extinction was gradual in Eurasia (Stuart 1991), where straight-tusked elephants ( Palaeoloxodon a...

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Published in:Radiocarbon
Main Authors: Martin, Paul S., Stuart, Anthony J.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1995
Subjects:
General Earth and Planetary Sciences
Archeology
Arctic
Wrangel Island
Siberia
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0033822200014739
https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0033822200014739

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