The latest woolly mammoths (Mammuthus primigenius Blumenbach) in Europe and Asia: a review of the current evidence

Stuart, Anthony J.; Sulerzhitsky, L. D.; Орлова, Л. А.; Kuzmin, Yaroslav V.; Lister, Adrian M.

doi:10.1016/s0277-3791(02)00026-4

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“…The results are that in the earliest time zone 38.18% of the dates are present, followed by 49.09% in the middle zone and 12.73% in the latest zone. This reduction in dates associated with the mammoth is backed up by recent work directly dating the mammoth remains themselves that show that the species appears to have vanished from much of Europe during the LGM (STUART et al 2002).…”

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“…There are no apparent changes in the distributions of these mammals through OIS 3 (Figs. 5 A, B and C) and these mammals may have been at their full geographical extent from the beginning to the end of the period although the mammoth eventually became extirpated in Europe during the LGM (STUART et al 2002).…”

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“…It may also be that some of these taxa do not particularly favour the extreme cold while others may have relied on arboreal vegetation that may have decreased in abundance towards the LGM. The saiga antelope is unexpected and more difficult to explain although the mammoth retreating from Europe at the LGM (STUART et al 2002), as another grazer, may be an indication that steppe-tundra grasslands were affected.…”

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Neanderthal extinction as part of the faunal change in Europe during Oxygen Isotope Stage 3

Stewart

2007

Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia - Series A: Vertebrata

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Abstract. The extinction of the Neanderthals has not been widely considered in the light of the palaeoecology of other mammals. Therefore, a palaeoecological and historical biogeographical analysis of a database of European mammalian fossils for the period covering 60-20 thousand calendar years (approximately OIS 3 and covering the time when Neanderthals became extinct) has been conducted that shed light on the ecological conditions of this period. Broadly the larger mammals in this database form historical biogeographical categories including extant ubiquitous, extant northern and montane, extant eastern, extinct northern and extinct southern taxa. Neanderthals appear to belong to the extinct southern grouping which highlights the lack of attention they had received from the perspective of extinct Late Pleistocene Megafaunal elements. The temporal distribution of taxa confirms the decline towards the Last Glacial Maximum of the southern extinct group and further reveals a decrease in the occurrence of many smaller carnivores. The latter may indicate a decrease in carrying capacity as temperatures decreased which is supported by the decrease in occurrence of mammoths on non-archaeological sites and other similar phenomena documented elsewhere. The geographical distribution of the larger mammals of OIS 3 confirms a retreat towards the South and West of Neanderthals similar to that of the straight-tusked elephant Elephas antiquus and Merck's rhino Stephanorhinus kirchbergensis, both of which also became extinct towards the Last Glacial Maximum. The change in geographical distribution of the European wild ass Equus hydruntinus through OIS 3 may be closest to that of the Neanderthals implying similar tolerances. The results of the palaeoecological and palaeobiogeographical study of Neanderthals prompt a reconsideration of their supposed adaptations.

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Neanderthal extinction as part of the faunal change in Europe during Oxygen Isotope Stage 3

Stewart

2007

Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia - Series A: Vertebrata

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“…1, 2001. Younger, more northward-situated sites are known from the Russian Plain (map in Markova et al, 2001;Stuart et al, 2002). The single mammoth tooth from Gori in Georgia was found in a river terrace of probably terminal-Pleistocene age (Gabunia, 1952: 154).…”

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The Padul mammoth finds — On the southernmost record of Mammuthus primigenius in Europe and its southern spread during the Late Pleistocene

Álvarez-Lao

Kahlke²,

Garcı́a

et al. 2009

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

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“…Det forklarer også, hvorfor en datering af en stødtand fra Rosmos på Djursland ikke er medtaget. Den blev oprindeligt dateret til 13.240 ± 760/690 kulstof-14 år BP (K-3697), men en om-datering gav en alder på 33.270 ± 350 år BP (OxA-10189, Stuart et al 2002).…”

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Danmarks senkvartære pattedyrsfauna

Bennike¹

2009

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Denne monografi giver en oversigt over aendringer af pattedyrfaunaen i Danmark og de naerliggende områ-der under sidste istid og Holocaen, svarende til de sidste 115.000 år. I alt omtales 77 arter af land-og havpattedyr.Størstedelen af vaerket udgøres af en liste over disse 77 arter. For hver art er angivet det videnskabelige og det engelske navn og derefter aeldste og yngste fund. Dernaest følger som regel "number of dated records", noter om fund fra "adjacent areas", "recent evidence" og "inferred time range" i Danmark. Nogle arter har også et afsnit med bemaerkninger. AEndringerne i faunaen og deres årsager analyseres og diskuteres i forhold til klima-og miljøaendringer. De sidste omfatter fremstød og tilbagesmeltning af det Fennoskandiske Isskjold, aendringer i plantevaekst, aendringer i relativt havniveau, ø-dannelse og menneskets indfl ydelse. Bogens indholdVaerket indledes med en ganske kort oversigt over miljø-og klimaaendringerne, over materialet og de processer, som har fundet sted fra dyrene døde, til knoglerne blev fundet, over dateringer og kronologi. Og vaerket afsluttes med laengere beskrivelser og diskussioner af faunaens udvikling. Her redegør forfatteren for de enorme aendringer, der er sket i faunaen. Før sidste istids maksimum levede arter som mammut, naesehorn, moskusokse, rensdyr, lemming og hvalros i Danmark. Under senglacial tid genindvandrede for eksempel rensdyr og lemming, og mange andre arter kom til. Nogle af dem, som for eksempel elg, forsvandt formentlig kortvarigt under Yngre Dryas kuldeperioden. Efter den dramatiske temperaturstigning ved Yngre Dryas-Holocaen-graensen forsvandt en raekke arktiske arter, men til gengaeld indvandrede mere varmekraevende arter. Her kan naevnes kronhjort og vildsvin. I tidlig Holocaen var artsrigdommen størst, men snart efter forsvandt en raekke arter, hvorefter diversiteten var nogenlunde konstant frem til i dag, til trods for at dele af Danmark blev opsplittet i et ø-rige, daekket af taet skov, og til trods for at mennesket har udryddet fl ere arter i Danmark. Ikke mindst den relative havstigning, der førte til dannelsen af Sjaelland, Fyn og mange andre øer, og dermed til isolerede bestande, mener forfatteren var en afgørende faktor for den lokale uddøen af en raekke arter på øerne. Fund af pattedyr i DanmarkStudiet af jordfundne rester af hvirveldyr har en lang tradition i Danmark. Blandt tidligere forskere kan fremhaeves zoologerne Japetus Steenstrup, Herluf Winge, Magnus Degerbøl og konservatoren Ulrik Møhl. Men også en raekke danske kvartaergeologer har bidraget til vores kendskab til fortidens fauna, og i skrifter fra Danmarks Geologiske Undersøgelse er der udkommet en laengere raekke bidrag til emnet. I Wienberg Rasmussens klassiske "Danmarks Geologi" optager fund af pattedyr en prominent plads; det samme gaelder i storvaerket Danmarks Natur fra Politikens Forlag og i vaerket Naturen i Danmark -Geologien fra Gyldendal. Kvartaerzoologi er således et område, der både interesserer zoologer og geologer. Men derudover har faget også langt bredere ...

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The latest woolly mammoths (Mammuthus primigenius Blumenbach) in Europe and Asia: a review of the current evidence

Cited by 142 publications

References 28 publications

Neanderthal extinction as part of the faunal change in Europe during Oxygen Isotope Stage 3

Neanderthal extinction as part of the faunal change in Europe during Oxygen Isotope Stage 3

The Padul mammoth finds — On the southernmost record of Mammuthus primigenius in Europe and its southern spread during the Late Pleistocene

Danmarks senkvartære pattedyrsfauna

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