The Sevsk woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) site in Russia: Taphonomic, biological and behavioral interpretations

Maschenko, E. N.; Gablina, S.S.; Tesakov, Alexey S.; Симакова, А.Н.

doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2005.03.013

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“…At the latter site, ribs are the best represented element, while carpals/tarsals and phalanges also occur in higher frequencies than at Yudinovo and Mezhirich. At Sevsk, vertebrae, ribs, carpals, metacarpals, tarsals, metatarsals and phalanges number 3256 specimens (88%) out of a total of 3700 bones (Maschenko et al, 2006). This is significantly different from the number of 151 (29%) of these elements out of a total of 517 at Yudinovo (pavilion) (Fisher's exact test < 0.0001).…”

Section: Frequency Of Skeletal Elements Isolated Bones and Articulatmentioning

confidence: 85%

“…Here, a catastrophic death assemblage of one mammoth group, composed of at least 33 mammoths that died simultaneously during spring or early summer, was discovered in oxbow lake deposits in an area of about 800 m 2 . The cause of death could be related to a catastrophic flood (Maschenko, 2002;Maschenko et al, 2006). However, according to Velichko and Zelikson (2005), the mammoths died in a thermokarst depression.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Siberian tusks with a diameter of more than 110 mm are considered to be exclusively from males (Vereshchagin and Tichonov, 1986). At Sevsk, the tusks are less than 110 mm in diameter, which points to a preponderance of females, as shown by Maschenko et al (2006). At Yudinovo, many tusks are 110 mm or more in diameter and are therefore derived from older bulls.…”

Section: Palaeobiological Analysis Of the Mammoth Bone Accumulationmentioning

confidence: 97%

“…13). This latter assemblage is dominated by female mammoths (Maschenko et al, 2006). The tusks from both the Flemish Valley and Siberia have a clear bimodal distribution with the slender tusks, from females and young males, separated from the heavy tusks of older males.…”

Section: Palaeobiological Analysis Of the Mammoth Bone Accumulationmentioning

confidence: 98%

“…The length could only be taken on a more limited number of tusks, because many were partly hidden under other bones or were covered by loam. The diameters of the Yudinovo tusks were compared with those from Berelekh, Siberia (Vereshchagin and Tichonov, 1986), with tusks collected from Early Glacial and Pleniglacial fluvial sands from the Flemish Valley, Belgium (Germonpré, 1993b), and with those from Sevsk (Maschenko, 1992;Maschenko et al, 2006) (Fig. 13).…”

Section: Palaeobiological Analysis Of the Mammoth Bone Accumulationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The Berelekh quest: A review of forty years of research in the mammoth graveyard in northeast Siberia

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The Berelekh mammoth graveyard became known following its first scientific description in 1947. Both the “graveyard” and the “archaeological site” were investigated in the early 1970s, and then systematic investigations ended. This article reviews all the available data from a range of sources and provides a complete set of the 36 14C dates so far obtained for the Berelekh geoarchaeological complex. The host deposits of the Berelekh bone bed (or mammoth graveyard) accumulated between 14,000 and 11,000 14C yr B.P., with the most intensive accumulation of bones around 12,300 14C yr B.P. There is almost no chronological overlap between the “graveyard” and “archaeological site” at the same location. Episodes of human habitation near the bone bed, which produced the Late Palaeolithic Berelekh archaeological site, were related to the exploitation of natural mass mammoth accumulation, which was a valuable source of raw material, such as ivory and long bones. The youngest mammoth remains date to 11,800 14C yr B.P. and have no cultural relation to the Dyuktai archaeological culture. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

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Holes in the spinous processes of woolly mammoth vertebrae: spatial and temporal distribution, and the causes of pathology formation

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The latest data on holes in the spinous processes of the vertebrae of woolly mammoths, a rare pathology, are presented. This was identified at 19 sites of northern Eurasia. Such destructive changes are recorded ca. 34–12k 14C a bp, and only two sites dated to >50k and >41k 14C a bp. The main hypotheses about hole formation are: vertebral abnormalities; bone infections; genetic traits; and unfavourable geochemical environment. The pathology occurred in mammoths of all age groups, and could have arisen at the embryonic stage. There are two types: classic holes associated with osteolytic changes; and very rarely tumour‐like lesions. The most likely cause of the lesions is alimentary osteodystrophy caused by chronic mineral starvation. The aetiology of this disease is usually associated with a deficiency or excess of macro‐ and microelements in the geochemical landscape, and through forage and water this leads to a severe metabolic disorder. Analysis of palaeopathological data shows two waves of geochemical stress in animals, ca. 26–18k and ca. 16–12k 14C a bp. Therefore, the woolly mammoth extinction can be viewed as a non‐linear function, with two peaks of high mortality corresponding to the Last Glacial Maximum and the Lateglacial.

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The Sevsk woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) site in Russia: Taphonomic, biological and behavioral interpretations

Cited by 51 publications

References 6 publications

Possible evidence of mammoth hunting during the Epigravettian at Yudinovo, Russian Plain

Possible evidence of mammoth hunting during the Epigravettian at Yudinovo, Russian Plain

The Berelekh quest: A review of forty years of research in the mammoth graveyard in northeast Siberia

Holes in the spinous processes of woolly mammoth vertebrae: spatial and temporal distribution, and the causes of pathology formation

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