Consensus Dating of Mammoth Remains from Wrangel Island

• Published in: Radiocarbon
• Main Authors: Arslanov, Kh. A., Cook, G. T., Gulliksen, Steinar, Harkness, D. D., Kankainen, Tuovi, Scott, E. M., Vartanyan, Sergey, Zaitseva, Ganna I.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1997
• Subjects: General Earth and Planetary Sciences; Archeology; Wrangel Island
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0033822200018166; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0033822200018166

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...