AMS Dating Mammoth Bones: Comparison with Conventional Dating
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2000-01-01Keywords
skeletonsElephantidae
Elephantoidea
Mammuthus
Proboscidea
extinction
Theria
Eutheria
Mammalia
isotope ratiosChordataTetrapodaVertebrataPleistoceneSiberiaupper PleistocenepermafrostbonesAsiaCenozoicQuaternaryC 14carbondatesisotopesradioactive isotopesC 13 C 12stable isotopesabsolute age
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Vasil'chuk, Y. K., Vasil'chuk, A. C., Long, A., Jull, A. J. T., & Donahue, D. J. (2000). AMS dating mammoth bones: Comparison with conventional dating. Radiocarbon, 42(2), 281-284.Journal
RadiocarbonAdditional Links
http://radiocarbon.webhost.uits.arizona.edu/Abstract
Fossilized Siberian mammoth remains are important indicators of environmental change in the Late Pleistocene. The NSF-Arizona AMS Laboratory radiocarbon results on amino acid separations compare well with mammoth bone collagen from the same specimens treated by HCI and dated by beta counting (the Russian Academy Geological Institute Radiocarbon Laboratory). Neither laboratory was aware of the other's dates for these comparisons. The results coincide very closely (a difference of 50-800 yr), and demonstrate that AMS dating provides a very good perspective for applications of past mammoth population studies.Type
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