Strong evidence for dietary mineral imbalance as the cause of osteodystrophy in Late Glacial woolly mammoths at the Berelyokh site (Northern Yakutia, Russia)

• Published in: Quaternary International
• Main Author: Leshchinskiy, Sergey V.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Северная Якутия; геохимические ландшафты; остеодистрофия; шерстистые мамонты; палеоэкологический анализ; вымирание мамонтов; Beck; Yakutia; Якути*; Якутия
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2017.02.036; https://openrepository.ru/article?id=292036

Paleoecological analysis of over 1500 mammoth remains from the famous non-archaeological Berelyokh site (∼13–12 ka BP) has demonstrated that ∼ 42% show destructive changes (osteoporosis, osteolysis, osteofibrosis, osteomalacia, articular diseases and others). For the first time, non-closure of cervi...