Late‐glacial mammoth skeletons ( Mammuthusprimigenius) from Condover (Shropshire, UK): anatomy, pathology, taphonomy and chronological significance
Abstract The Condover mammoths, discovered by chance in 1986, are a remarkably well‐preserved assemblage of partial skeletons unique in western and central Europe. The skeletons were preserved in a kettle‐hole infill and recovered ex situ , requiring careful anatomical reconstruction. This revealed...
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crwiley:10.1002/gj.1162 2024-09-15T18:09:49+00:00 Late‐glacial mammoth skeletons ( Mammuthusprimigenius) from Condover (Shropshire, UK): anatomy, pathology, taphonomy and chronological significance Lister, Adrian M. 2009 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/gj.1162 https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1002%2Fgj.1162 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/gj.1162 en eng Wiley http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/termsAndConditions#vor Geological Journal volume 44, issue 4, page 447-479 ISSN 0072-1050 1099-1034 journal-article 2009 crwiley https://doi.org/10.1002/gj.1162 2024-08-27T04:32:39Z Abstract The Condover mammoths, discovered by chance in 1986, are a remarkably well‐preserved assemblage of partial skeletons unique in western and central Europe. The skeletons were preserved in a kettle‐hole infill and recovered ex situ , requiring careful anatomical reconstruction. This revealed the skeleton of a 28‐year‐old adult male woolly mammoth ( Mammuthus primigenius ), largely complete except for the cranium, the partial skeletons of four or five juveniles in the age range 3–6 years, plus sparse remains of a subadult individual. The adult skeleton bears several traces of pathology, particularly a badly fractured but re‐healed scapula. The presence of blowfly puparia within bone cavities, together with other environmental data and a consideration of mammoth biology, allow a detailed reconstruction of the taphonomy of the skeletons, which appear to have become mired within the kettle‐hole. The discovery of complete skeletons from a stratified, dated context contributes strong evidence for the survival of mammoths in Britain and western Europe into the Devensian Late‐glacial ca. 14.5–14.0 ka cal BP, within Greenland Interstadial 1. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Article in Journal/Newspaper Greenland Wiley Online Library Geological Journal 44 4 447 479 |
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Abstract The Condover mammoths, discovered by chance in 1986, are a remarkably well‐preserved assemblage of partial skeletons unique in western and central Europe. The skeletons were preserved in a kettle‐hole infill and recovered ex situ , requiring careful anatomical reconstruction. This revealed the skeleton of a 28‐year‐old adult male woolly mammoth ( Mammuthus primigenius ), largely complete except for the cranium, the partial skeletons of four or five juveniles in the age range 3–6 years, plus sparse remains of a subadult individual. The adult skeleton bears several traces of pathology, particularly a badly fractured but re‐healed scapula. The presence of blowfly puparia within bone cavities, together with other environmental data and a consideration of mammoth biology, allow a detailed reconstruction of the taphonomy of the skeletons, which appear to have become mired within the kettle‐hole. The discovery of complete skeletons from a stratified, dated context contributes strong evidence for the survival of mammoths in Britain and western Europe into the Devensian Late‐glacial ca. 14.5–14.0 ka cal BP, within Greenland Interstadial 1. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. |
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Late‐glacial mammoth skeletons ( Mammuthusprimigenius) from Condover (Shropshire, UK): anatomy, pathology, taphonomy and chronological significance |
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Late‐glacial mammoth skeletons ( Mammuthusprimigenius) from Condover (Shropshire, UK): anatomy, pathology, taphonomy and chronological significance |
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Late‐glacial mammoth skeletons ( Mammuthusprimigenius) from Condover (Shropshire, UK): anatomy, pathology, taphonomy and chronological significance |
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Late‐glacial mammoth skeletons ( Mammuthusprimigenius) from Condover (Shropshire, UK): anatomy, pathology, taphonomy and chronological significance |
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Late‐glacial mammoth skeletons ( Mammuthusprimigenius) from Condover (Shropshire, UK): anatomy, pathology, taphonomy and chronological significance |
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