The Zhenya Mammoth ( Mammuthus primigenius (Blum.)): Taphonomy, geology, age, morphology and ancient DNA of a 48,000 year old frozen mummy from western Taimyr, Russia

• Published in: Quaternary International
• Main Authors: Maschenko, Evgeny N., Potapova, Olga R., Vershinina, Alisa, Shapiro, Beth, Streletskaya, Irina D., Vasiliev, Alexander A., Oblogov, Gleb E., Kharlamova, Anastasia S., Potapov, Eugene, van der Plicht, J., Tikhonov, Alexey N., Serdyuk, Natalia V., Tarasenko, Konstantin K.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: SITE; RADIOCARBON; BROWN ADIPOSE-TISSUE; ELEPHANT LOXODONTA-AFRICANA; WOOLLY MAMMOTH; NORTHWEST SIBERIA; SEXUAL-DIMORPHISM; YAMAL PENINSULA; ARCTIC SIBERIA; GROWTH; Arctic; The Tusk; Yamal Peninsula; Yenisey; Taimyr; yenisey river; Siberia
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/11370/51a6a114-b1b5-436d-810b-a832575c1c91; https://research.rug.nl/en/publications/51a6a114-b1b5-436d-810b-a832575c1c91; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2017.06.055; https://pure.rug.nl/ws/files/53466635/The_Zhenya_Mammoth_Mammuthus_primigenius.pdf; http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2017QuInt.445.104M

This paper reports the results of an in-depth analysis of the frozen remains of a woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) named Zhenya, which has been dated to 48,000 cal BP. The carcass, found near the mouth of the Yenisey River in eastern Siberia, was a juvenile male whose ontogenetic age at death...