Radiocarbon Dating Evidence for Mammoths on Wrangel Island, Arctic Ocean, Until 2000 BC
Issue Date
1995-01-01Keywords
teethElephantidae
Elephantoidea
Mammuthus
Proboscidea
Mammuthus primigenius
Wrangel Island
extinction
Theria
Eutheria
Mammalia
Holocene
Chordata
Tetrapoda
Vertebrata
Russian Federation
Commonwealth of Independent States
bones
Asia
Cenozoic
Quaternary
C 14
carbon
dates
isotopes
radioactive isotopes
absolute age
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Vartanyan, S. L., Arslanov, K. A., Tertychnaya, T. V., & Chernov, S. (1995). Radiocarbon dating evidence for mammoths on Wrangel Island, Arctic Ocean, until 2000 BC. Radiocarbon, 37(1), 1-6.Journal
RadiocarbonAdditional Links
http://radiocarbon.webhost.uits.arizona.edu/Abstract
Radiocarbon dating results of mammoth tusks, teeth and bones collected on Wrangel Island between 1989 and 1991 reveal a unique mammoth refugium during the Holocene. We used an improved chemical procedure to obtain and purify collagen from bone. Benzene synthesized from the samples was measured using a liquid scintillation counter. The validity of our data has been confirmed by the results of our measurements on two international control sample series (IAEA and TIRI) and by parallel measurements of Wrangel Island mammoth remains at other laboratories.Type
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enISSN
0033-8222ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1017/S0033822200014703