A Review of the Evidence for Extinction Chronologies for Five Species of Upper Pleistocene Megafauna in Siberia
Issue Date
2004-01-01Keywords
absolute ageArtiodactyla
Asia
Bison
Bovidae
C 14
carbon
Cenozoic
Ceratomorpha
ChordatachronologyCoelodonta antiquitatisdatesElephantidaeElephantoideaEquidaeEquusEquus caballusEutheriaextinctionHippomorphaHoloceneisotopesMammaliaMammuthusMammuthus primigeniusmegafaunaOvibus moschatusPerissodactylaPleistoceneProboscideaQuaternaryradioactive isotopesRhinocerotidaeRuminantiaSiberiaTetrapodaTheriaupper Holoceneupper PleistoceneVertebrata
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Orlova, L. A., Kuzmin, Y. V., & Dementiev, V. N. (2004). A review of the evidence for extinction chronologies for five species of Upper Pleistocene megafauna in Siberia. Radiocarbon, 46(1), 301-314.Journal
RadiocarbonDescription
From the 18th International Radiocarbon Conference held in Wellington, New Zealand, September 1-5, 2003.Additional Links
http://radiocarbon.webhost.uits.arizona.edu/Abstract
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.Type
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