Results of the CERPOLEX/Mammuthus expeditions on the Taimyr peninsula, Arctic Siberia, Russian federation

• Published in: Quaternary International
• Main Authors: Mol, D, Tikhonov, A, van der Plicht, J, Kahlke, RD, Debruyne, R, van Geel, B, van Reenen, G, Pals, JP, de Marliave, C, Reumer, JWF, Kahlke, Ralf-Dietrich, Pals, Jan Peter, Reumer, Jelle W.F.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2006
• Subjects: TAYMYR PENINSULA; HOLOCENE VEGETATION; LATE PLEISTOCENE; HISTORY; CLIMATE; EXTINCTION; MAXIMUM; DNA; Arctic; Taymyr; Taimyr; Taymyr Peninsula; Siberia
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/11370/e006a7ad-97cb-44a0-85d3-e35c964a93f2; https://research.rug.nl/en/publications/e006a7ad-97cb-44a0-85d3-e35c964a93f2; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2005.03.016; https://pure.rug.nl/ws/files/6690111/2006QuatIntMol2.pdf

During a series of expeditions organized by CERPOLEX/Mammuthus to the Taimyr region in northern Siberia several mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) carcasses were discovered and subsequently excavated and studied. The oldest specimen is the Arilakh Mammoth (ca. 55,800 BP). Much younger are the Jarkov Ma...