Consensus Dating of Mammoth Remains from Wrangel Island
Previous results from remains of tusks, teeth and bones collected from Wrangel Island (Vartanyan et al . 1995) had given results in the range 3730 bp to 20,000 bp and the authors had concluded that “mammoths inhabited Wrangel Island for as long as 6000 yr after the estimated extinction on the Siberi...
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crcambridgeupr:10.1017/s0033822200018166 2024-03-03T08:49:22+00:00 Consensus Dating of Mammoth Remains from Wrangel Island Arslanov, Kh. A. Cook, G. T. Gulliksen, Steinar Harkness, D. D. Kankainen, Tuovi Scott, E. M. Vartanyan, Sergey Zaitseva, Ganna I. 1997 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0033822200018166 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0033822200018166 en eng Cambridge University Press (CUP) https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms Radiocarbon volume 40, issue 1, page 289-294 ISSN 0033-8222 1945-5755 General Earth and Planetary Sciences Archeology journal-article 1997 crcambridgeupr https://doi.org/10.1017/s0033822200018166 2024-02-08T08:36:31Z Previous results from remains of tusks, teeth and bones collected from Wrangel Island (Vartanyan et al . 1995) had given results in the range 3730 bp to 20,000 bp and the authors had concluded that “mammoths inhabited Wrangel Island for as long as 6000 yr after the estimated extinction on the Siberian continent”. There still remained the question of the earliest date for such remains. Further, the authors had noted such samples may present some difficulty in dating and therefore duplicate samples had been measured in a second laboratory with satisfactory results. The replicate dating of important or controversial samples in more than one laboratory is well-established ( e.g. , Turin Shroud) and in this paper, we present results for 5 mammoth samples dated by 6 laboratories. Such interlaboratory comparisons provide an independent means of verification of laboratory comparability, and give added confidence in the results, particularly when applied to more controversial samples. A further objective of the work has been to evaluate the material for inclusion in any large-scale interlaboratory comparison, such comparisons having in the past formed part of laboratory quality assurance protocols. The design and organization of a laboratory intercomparison requires homogeneous samples in sufficient quantity to satisfy participants, and so in principle, a single mammoth tusk would meet these criteria. Samples such as the mammoth tusk have been used in previous intercomparisons: e.g. , in the last large-scale international intercomparison (Gulliksen and Scott 1995), whalebone was one of the materials distributed. One of the key advantages of such material is that a single sample (a mammoth tusk) can be resampled for analysis by multiple labs and thus does not require bulk homogenization. Therefore, as part of a preselection process for a future intercomparison, five samples from separate mammoth tusks were collected from Wrangel Island in 1995 in sufficient quantity to allow multiple dating. The aim was to identify five ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Wrangel Island Cambridge University Press Wrangel Island ENVELOPE(-179.385,-179.385,71.244,71.244) Radiocarbon 40 1 289 294 |
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Previous results from remains of tusks, teeth and bones collected from Wrangel Island (Vartanyan et al . 1995) had given results in the range 3730 bp to 20,000 bp and the authors had concluded that “mammoths inhabited Wrangel Island for as long as 6000 yr after the estimated extinction on the Siberian continent”. There still remained the question of the earliest date for such remains. Further, the authors had noted such samples may present some difficulty in dating and therefore duplicate samples had been measured in a second laboratory with satisfactory results. The replicate dating of important or controversial samples in more than one laboratory is well-established ( e.g. , Turin Shroud) and in this paper, we present results for 5 mammoth samples dated by 6 laboratories. Such interlaboratory comparisons provide an independent means of verification of laboratory comparability, and give added confidence in the results, particularly when applied to more controversial samples. A further objective of the work has been to evaluate the material for inclusion in any large-scale interlaboratory comparison, such comparisons having in the past formed part of laboratory quality assurance protocols. The design and organization of a laboratory intercomparison requires homogeneous samples in sufficient quantity to satisfy participants, and so in principle, a single mammoth tusk would meet these criteria. Samples such as the mammoth tusk have been used in previous intercomparisons: e.g. , in the last large-scale international intercomparison (Gulliksen and Scott 1995), whalebone was one of the materials distributed. One of the key advantages of such material is that a single sample (a mammoth tusk) can be resampled for analysis by multiple labs and thus does not require bulk homogenization. Therefore, as part of a preselection process for a future intercomparison, five samples from separate mammoth tusks were collected from Wrangel Island in 1995 in sufficient quantity to allow multiple dating. The aim was to identify five ... |
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Consensus Dating of Mammoth Remains from Wrangel Island |
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Consensus Dating of Mammoth Remains from Wrangel Island |
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