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A Review of the Evidence for Extinction Chronologies for Five Species of Upper Pleistocene Megafauna in Siberia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

Lyobov A Orlova ,
Yaroslav V Kuzmin  and
Vyacheslav N Dementiev
Lyobov A Orlova
Affiliation:
Institute of Geology, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Koptuyg Ave. 3, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia. Email: orlova@uiggm.nsc.ru.
Yaroslav V Kuzmin
Affiliation:
Pacific Institute of Geography, Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Radio St. 7, Vladivostok 690041, Russia. Email: ykuzmin@tig.dvo.ru.
Vyacheslav N Dementiev*
Affiliation:
Institute of Geology, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Koptuyg Ave. 3, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia. Email: orlova@uiggm.nsc.ru.
*
Email: dementev@uiggm.nsc.ru.
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A review of the radiocarbon chronology of some late Upper Pleistocene mammals from Siberia is presented. Previously published data has been supplemented by new 14C dates for 5 species (woolly mammoth, woolly rhinoceros, bison, horse, and muskox) to reconstruct chronological extinction patterns. The final extinction of woolly rhinoceros and bison in Siberia can be dated to approximately 11,000–9700 BP, but some megafaunal species (woolly mammoth, horse, and muskox) survived into the Late Holocene, about 3700–2200 BP.

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Radiocarbon , Volume 46 , Issue 1: Proceedings of the 18th International Radiocarbon Conference (Part 1 of 2), Conference Editors: Nancy Beavan Athfield, Rodger J Sparks , 2004 , pp. 301 - 314
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Copyright © 2004 by the Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of the University of Arizona 

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