RADIOCARBON AGES OF MAMMOTHS IN NORTHERN EURASIA - IMPLICATIONS FOR POPULATION DEVELOPMENT AND LATE QUATERNARY ENVIRONMENT

Many mammoth remains have been radiocarbon-dated. We present here more than 360 C-14 dates on bones, tusks, molars and soft tissues of mammo ths and discuss some issues connected with the evolution of mammoths a nd their environment: the problem of the last mammoth; mammoth taphono my; the plant remains and stable isotope records accompanying mammoth fossils; paleoclimate during the time of the mammoths and dating of ho st sediments. The temporal distribution of the C-14 dates of fossils f rom the northern Eurasian territory is even for the entire period from 40 to 10 ka BP.