Radiocarbon Dating Evidence for Mammoths on Wrangel Island, Arctic Ocean, Until 2000 BC

Radiocarbon - Tập 37 Số 1 - Trang 1-6 - 1995
Sergey Vartanyan1, Х. А. Арсланов2, T. V. Tertychnaya2, С. В. Чернов2
1Wrangel Island State Reserve, 686870 Ushakovskoye, Magadan Region, Russia
2Geographical Research Institute, St. Petersburg State University, Sredniy Prospect 41 199004 St. Petersburg, Russia

Tóm tắt

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.

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