Prelude to the extinction: Revision of the Achchagyi-Allaikha and Berelyokh mass accumulations of mammoth

Quaternary International

Volumn 219, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 16-25

  Nikolskiy, P A ^a   Basilyan, A E ^a   Sulerzhitsky, L D ^a   Pitulko, V V ^b  

^a GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^b INSTITUTE FOR THE HISTORY OF MATERIAL CULTURE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCUMULATION; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; BOLLING; BONE; COLLAGEN; EXTINCTION; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; MAMMOTH; RADIOCARBON DATING; SNOW COVER; TAPHONOMY;

ARCTIC; INDIGIRKA RIVER; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SAKHA; SIBERIA;

ANIMALIA; BISON; EQUUS; RANGIFER;

EID: 77952950507     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2009.10.028     Document Type: Article

References (45)

1. Andreev A.A., Schirrmeister L., Siegert Ch., Bobrov A.A., Demske D., Seiffert D., Hubberten H.-W. Paleoenvironmental changes in Northeastern Siberia during the Late Quaternary: evidences from pollen records of the Bykovsky Peninsula. Polarforschung 2002, 70:13-25.
2. Andreev A.A., Tarasov P.E., Klimanov V.A., Melles M., Lisitsyna O.M., Hubberten H.W. Vegetation and climate changes around the Lama Lake, Taymyr Peninsula, Russia during the Late Pleistocene and Holocene. Quaternary International 2004, 122:69-84.
3. Arslanov K.A., Vereshchagin N.K., Lyadov V.V., Ukraintseva V.V. On the chronology of the Karginsky interglacial, and on the reconstruction of Siberian landscapes based on the studies of mammoth corpses. Geohronologia chetvertichnogo perioda 1980, 208-212. Nauka, Moscow, (in Russian). I.K. Ivanova, N.V. Kind (Eds.).
4. Atkinson T.C., Briffa K.R., Coope G.R. Seasonal temperatures in Britain during the past 22,000years, reconstructed using beetle remains. Nature 1987, 325:587-593.
5. Baryshnikov G.F., Kuzmina I.E., Hrabryi V.M. Metric data for tube bones from the Berelyokh Mammoth Graveyard. Trudy Zoologicheskogo Instituta 1977, 72:58-66. (in Russian).
6. Chubur A.A. Role of a mammoth in cultural adaptations of the upper Paleolithic population of the Russian plain during Ostashkovo period 1997, Eastern Gravette, Moscow, pp. 309-329(in Russian).
7. Cuffey K.M., Clow G.D. Temperature, accumulation, and ice sheet elevation in central Greenland through the last deglacial transition. Journal of Geophysical Research 1997, 102:26383-26396.
8. Dansgaard W., Johnsen S., Clausen H., Dahl-Jensen D., Gundestrup N., Hammer C., Hvidberg C., Steffensen J., Sveinbjornsdottir A., Jouzel J., Bong G. Evidence for general instability in past climate from a 250kyr ice-core record. Nature 1993, 364:218-220.
9. Demske D., Heumann G., Granoszewski W., Nita M., Mamakowa K., Tarasov P.E., Oberhänsli H. Late glacial and Holocene vegetation and regional climate variability evidenced in high-resolution pollen records from Lake Baikal. Global and Planetary Change 2005, 46(1-4):255-279.
10. Derevianko A.P., Zenin V.N., Leshchinskiy S.V., Mashchenko E.N. Peculiarities of mammoth accumulation at Shestakovo site in West Siberia. Archaeology. Ethnology & Anthropology of Eurasia 2000, 3(3):42-55. (in Russian).
11. Glushkova O.U., Stetsenko T.V., Smirnov V.N., Minyuk P.S. New Data About the Late Pleistocene and Holocene Sediment Sequences from the El'gygytgyn Lake Area. El'gygytgyn Lake Workshop Report, Science Results & Plans for Deep Drilling 2001, 39-40.
12. Grigoriev N.F. Finds of mammoths. Overview of the materials received by the editorial board. Priroda 1957, 5:104-106. (in Russian).
13. Haynes G. Mammoths, Mastodonts, and Elephants. Biology, Behavior, and the Fossil Record 1991, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.
14. Hughen K.A., Overpeck J.T., Peterson L.C., Trumbore S. Rapid climate changes in the tropical Atlantic region during the last deglaciation. Nature 1996, 380:51-54.
15. Ilyashuk B.P., Ilyashuk E.A. Chironomid record of Late Quaternary climatic and environmental changes from two sites in Central Asia (Tuva Republic, Russia) - local, regional or global causes?. Quaternary Science Reviews 2007, 26(5-6):705-731.
16. Kaplina T.N., Sher A.V., Giterman R.E., Zazhigin V.S., Kiselev S.V., Lozhkin A.V., Nikitin V.P. The key section of the Pleistocene deposits in Allaikha River (Lower Indigirka R.). Bulletin of the Commission on the Quaternary Period study 1980, 50:73-95. (in Russian).
17. Lavrov A.V., Sulerzhitsky L.D. Mammoths: their period of existence as evidenced by radiocarbon dates. Vekovaya dinamika biogeotsenozov 1992, 36-52. Nauka, Moscow, (in Russian). V.N. Desyatye chtenia pamyati, Sukacheva (Eds.).
18. Lavrushin Yu.A. Alluvium of the subarctic area and periglacial surrounding of the terrestrial glacials. Trudy GIN AN SSSR 1963, 87:1-266. (in Russian).
19. Lazarev P.A. Cadaster of the Late Cenozoic Mammal Sites in Yakutia 2002, Nauka, Yakutsk, (in Russian).
20. Lazarev P.A., Tomskaya A.I. Mammals and Biostratigraphy of the Late Cenozoic of Northern Yakutia. Yakutia Branch, Siberian Division USSR Academy of Sciences 1987, Yakutsk (in Russian).
21. Leschinskiy S.V. On the origin of mammoth bones at the Volchia Griva (Mamontovo village, Novosibirsk region) Upper Paleolithic archeological site. Problemy geologii Sibery 1994, 1:125-127. (in Russian).
22. Leschinskiy, S.V., 2001. The Late Pleistocene Beast Solonetz of Western Siberia: " Mineral Oases" in Mammoth Migration Paths, Foci of the Palaeolithic Man's Activity. The World of Elephants - International Congress, Rome, pp. 293-298.
23. Leschinskiy S.V., Maschenko E.N., Orlova L.A., Burkanova E.M., Konovalova V.A., Teterina I.I., Gevlia K.M. Multidisciplinary paleontological-and-stratigraphy study of the Lugovskoe Site (years 2002-2004). Archeology, Ethnography and Anthropology of Eurasia 2006, 1(25):54-69. (in Russian).
24. Lozhkin V.A. Berelyokh mammoth population environments. Trudy Zoologicheskogo Instituta 1977, 72:67-68. (in Russian).
25. Lozhkin V.A. New data on the age of the Quaternary deposits in the Indigirka R. lower reaches. Doklady Akademie Nauka SSSR 1977, 275(5):1143-1146. (in Russian).
26. Lozhkin V.A. New data on the Quaternary deposits of the Indigirka River lower reaches. Doklady Akademie Nauka SSSR 1984, 275(5):1143-1146. (in Russian).
27. Lozhkin A.V., Anderson P.M., Stetsenko T.V. Paleoenvironmental Reconstructions from El'gygytgyn Lake Based on Palynological Data. El'gygytgyn Lake Workshop Report, Science Results & Plans for Deep Drilling 2001, 52-53.
28. Mangerud J., Svendsen J.-I., Astakhov V.I. The age and extent of the Barents and Kara sea ice sheets in Northern Russia. Boreas 1999, 28:46-80.
29. Maschenko E.N., Leschinskiy S.V. Composition and Morphology of the Mammoth Remains from the Volchia Griva Site. Evolution of the Life on the Planet Earth. Abstracts of the II International Symposium 2001, 507-511. Tomsk.
30. Maschenko E.N., Gablina S.S., Tesakov A.S., Simakova A.N. The Sevsk woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) site in Russia: taphonomic, biological and behavioral interpretations. Quaternary International 2006, 142-143:147-165.
31. Mochanov Y.A. Peopling of North-East Asia: Earliest Stages 1977, Nauka, Novosibirsk, (in Russian).
32. Pavlov P., Svendsen J.I., Indrelid S. Human presence in the European Arctic nearly 40,000years ago. Nature 2001, 413:64-67.
33. Pitulko V.V. The Berelekh enigmas. Transactions of the Institute for the History of Material Culture N 2008, 3:98-117. (in Russian).
34. Serikov, Yu.B., 2000. Paleolithic and Mesolithic of the Middle Trans-Urals. Nizhniy Tagyl (in Russian).
35. Sher A.V., Plakht I.R. Radiocarbon dating and problems of the Pleistocene stratigraphy in lowlands of the Northeast USSR. Izvestiya Akademie Nauka SSSR, Geological Series 8, 17-31 (in Russian); In English: International Geology Review 1988, 30(8):853-867.
36. Sher A.V., Kuzmina S.A., Kuznetsova T.V., Sulerzhitsky L.D. New insights into the Weichselian environment and climate of the Eastern-Siberian Arctic, derived from fossil insects, plants, and mammals. Quaternary Science Reviews 2005, 24:533-569.
37. 14C database and revised CALIB radiocarbon calibration program. Radiocarbon 1993, 35:215-230.
38. Vas'kovskiy A.P. Short Report on the Stratigraphy of the North-East Asia Antropogen (Quaternary) Deposits. Geology of the Kariak upland 1963, Leningrad (in Russian).
39. Vasilchuk Y., Punning J.-M., Vasilchuk A. Ages of mammoths in Northern Eurasia: implications for population development and the Late Quaternary Environment. Radiocarbon 1997, 39:1-18.
40. Vereshchagin N.K. Berelyokh mammoth graveyard. Trudy Zoologicheskogo Instituta 1977, 72:5-50. (in Russian).
41. Vereshchagin N.K., Ukraintceva V.V. Origin and stratigraphy of the Berelyokh mammoth " cemetery" Trudy of Zoologicheskog Instituta 1985, 131:104-113. (in Russian).
42. Von Grafenstein U., Erlenkeuser H., Brauer A., Jouzel J., Johnsen S.J. A mid-European decadal isotope-climate record from 15,500 to 5000years B.P. Science 1999, 284:1654-1657.
43. Zazhigin V.S. Collared lemmings (Dicrostonyx, Microtinae, Rodentia) from the Oyogos-Yar, East Siberia and taxonomic status of the Middle Pleistocene Dicrostonyx species. Natural History of the Eastern Arctic During the Pleistocene and the Holocene 2004, 14-26. GEOS, Moscow, (in Russian). P.A. Nikolskiy, V.V. Pitulko (Eds.).
44. 14C chronology of woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius Blum.) remains from the Shestakovo Upper Paleolithic site, Western Siberia: timing of human-mammoth interaction. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research (Section B) 2000, 172:745-750.
45. Zherekhova I.E. Description and measurement of the mammoth teeth from Berelyokh. Trudy Zoologicheskogo Instituta 1977, 72:50-57. (in Russian).