Goran Possnert
Biographic Data
| ID | 235072 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Goran Possnert |
| GIVEN NAMES | Goran |
| FAMILY NAME | Possnert |
| SIGNATURE | POSSNERT G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Uppsala University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4840-291X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 38 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 180 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 38 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
A Chronology of the Scythian Antiquities of Eurasia Based on New Archaeological and 14 C Data
The paper is compares the chronology of the monuments of the Scythian epoch located in the east and west of the Eurasian steppe zone on the basis of both archaeological and radiocarbon data. The lists of 14 C dates for the monuments located in different parts of Eurasia are presented according to the periods of their existence. Generally, the 14 C dates are confirmed the archaeological point of view and allow us to compare the chronological posit…
AMS Radiocarbon Measurements from the Swedish Varved Clays
The Swedish varve chronology, or Swedish Time Scale, is an annual chronology based upon the successive correlation of more than 1000 varve-thickness diagrams. The Late Glacial-Early Holocene varved clays were deposited as glaciolacustrine sediments in the Baltic Sea during the recession of the Scandinavian ice sheet. Formation of varved clays continued throughout the Holocene and is still going on in the estuary of River ångermanälven in northern…
A calendar age estimate of the Younger Dryas-Holocene boundary at Kråkenes, western Norway
The Younger Dryas/Holocene transition (YD/H) in the sediments of Kråkenes Lake, western Nor way, is well marked both lithologically and palaeobiologically at 756.5 cm in the investigated core. A series of 70 AMS radiocarbon dates on terrestrial plant macrofossils and the NaOH-soluble fraction of lake sediment was measured between 585 and 840 cm, covering the time span c. 10 440 to 7915 BP on the radiocarbon timescale. Forty-three of these dates a…
The First 14 C Dating of Monuments in European Scythia
The first radiocarbon dates for the famous monuments of European Scythia were produced for the Kelermes, Seven Brothers, Solocha and Chertomlyk barrows (burial mounds) by both accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) and conventional methods. The obtained 14 C dates confirmed the traditional archaeological chronology, which was based on the analysis of written data and typological comparisons of Scythian artifacts with similar objects found in the Anc…
Paleomagnetic Constraints on Sedimentation Rates in the Eastern Arctic Ocean
Deep-sea sediments recovered from six sites visited during the International Arctic Ocean Expedition of 1991 were examined to determine sedimentation rates in the eastern Arctic Ocean basin. The dearth of age-diagnostic biogenic material in these sediments precludes the application of biostratigraphic methods, but ages can be deduced using paleomagnetism, in conjunction with measurements of radiocarbon and carbonate concentration. Although no one…
New Radiocarbon Dates for the Vedde Ash and the Saksunarvatn Ash from Western Norway
The Vedde Ash Bed (mid-Younger Dryas) and the Saksunarvatn Ash (early Holocene) are important regional stratigraphic event markers in the North Atlantic, the Norwegian Sea, and the adjacent land area. It is thus essential to date them as precisely as possible. The occurrence of the Saksunarvatn Ash is reported for the first time from western Norway, and both tephras are dated precisely by AMS analyses of terrestrial plant material and lake sedime…
Synchronized Terrestrial Atmospheric Deglacial Records Around the North Atlantic
On the basis of synchronization of three carbon-14 ( 14 C)-dated lacustrine sequences from Sweden with tree ring and ice core records, the absolute age of the Younger Dryas-Preboreal climatic shift was determined to be 11,450 to 11,390 ± 80 years before the present. A 150-year-long cooling in the early Preboreal, associated with rising Δ 14 C values, is evident in all records and indicates an ocean ventilation change. This cooling is similar to e…
C AMS measurements from the Late Weichselian part of the Swedish Time Scale
The Swedish Time Scale
The Swedish Time Scale (STS) is a ca. 13,300-yr-long varve chronology that has been established for the Swedish east coast from >1000 overlapping clay-varve diagrams. We describe the present state of the STS and illustrate the application of this worldwide unique varve chronology for AMS radiocarbon measurements. The results are compared to other 14 C-dated calendar-year chronologies: dendrochronology, laminated lake sediments and U/Th. Our data …
Use of Bomb-Produced 14 C to Evaluate the Amount of CO 2 Emanating from Two Peat Bogs in Finland
We used moss increment counting to obtain well-defined samples of the topmost peat layers of two Sphagnum fuscum hummocks. The two ombrotrophic bogs, Lakkasuo in central Finland and Korvinsuo in eastern Finland, are of different ages, covering 3 and 9 ka, respectively. Using AMS dating, we traced bomb-produced 14 C through the topmost parts of the two peat profiles. A well-defined 14 C activity peak was found in both sequences dating the correspo…
Radiocarbon dating of iron
The low requirement on sample size (>0.1 mg carbon) in the accelerator radiocarbon dating technique makes direct dating of iron possible by analysis of the carbon incorporated during the melting process when the iron was manufactured. The uncertainties caused by indirect dating of iron blooms, slag and artefacts, etc., by associated organic material, e.g. charcoal, can thus be avoided. Since iron contains 0.01–4.5% carbon, 10–500 mg is enough for…
C Activity in Different Sections and Chemical Fractions of Oak Tree Rings, AD 1938–1981
The 14 C activity in rings from an oak tree grown in a suburb of Uppsala, Sweden has been studied for the period, AD 1938 to 1981. We compare the results with the atmospheric carbon dioxide records from Abisko, northern Sweden, where local or regional contamination from fossil-fuel combustion can be disregarded. We assess the influence from different chemical pretreatment procedures in use and compare HCl-NaOH-HCl treatment with cellulose extract…
Radiocarbon dating by the accelerator technique
Radiometric dating of archaeological samples by the accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) technique is well established today. The main advantage of this method compared to the old decay counting procedure is the small sample size (1 mg carbon equivalent weight) needed to carry out a dating. The basic principles as well as the present status of the technique are presented. Experiences from the first year of routine measurements in the Uppsala labor…
Dietary patterns and social structures in medieval Sigtuna, Sweden, as reflected in stable isotope values in human skeletal remains
Variation in 14C age of macrofossils and different fractions of minute peat samples dated by AMS
Accurate 14 C dating of peat samples is crucial if peat stratigraphies are to be used as historical archives. To analyse the variation in 14 C age within small peat samples, the 14 C age of different mire plant remains and peat fractions (n = 39) from 2 cm thick peat slices was determined using accelerator mass spectrometry. The 14 C ages of mosses were assumed to be the most accurate. To verify this we also tested the possibility that uncertaint…
A Chronology of the Scythian Antiquities of Eurasia Based on New Archaeological and 14 C Data
The paper is compares the chronology of the monuments of the Scythian epoch located in the east and west of the Eurasian steppe zone on the basis of both archaeological and radiocarbon data. The lists of 14 C dates for the monuments located in different parts of Eurasia are presented according to the periods of their existence. Generally, the 14 C dates are confirmed the archaeological point of view and allow us to compare the chronological posit…
C Activity in Different Sections and Chemical Fractions of Oak Tree Rings, AD 1938–1981
The 14 C activity in rings from an oak tree grown in a suburb of Uppsala, Sweden has been studied for the period, AD 1938 to 1981. We compare the results with the atmospheric carbon dioxide records from Abisko, northern Sweden, where local or regional contamination from fossil-fuel combustion can be disregarded. We assess the influence from different chemical pretreatment procedures in use and compare HCl-NaOH-HCl treatment with cellulose extract…
Dating Danish textiles and skins from bog finds by means of 14C AMS
A calendar age estimate of the Younger Dryas-Holocene boundary at Kråkenes, western Norway
The Younger Dryas/Holocene transition (YD/H) in the sediments of Kråkenes Lake, western Nor way, is well marked both lithologically and palaeobiologically at 756.5 cm in the investigated core. A series of 70 AMS radiocarbon dates on terrestrial plant macrofossils and the NaOH-soluble fraction of lake sediment was measured between 585 and 840 cm, covering the time span c. 10 440 to 7915 BP on the radiocarbon timescale. Forty-three of these dates a…
Radiocarbon dating by the accelerator technique
Radiometric dating of archaeological samples by the accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) technique is well established today. The main advantage of this method compared to the old decay counting procedure is the small sample size (1 mg carbon equivalent weight) needed to carry out a dating. The basic principles as well as the present status of the technique are presented. Experiences from the first year of routine measurements in the Uppsala labor…
The First Seal Hunter Families on Gotland - On the Mesolithic Occupation in the Stora Förvar Cave
The article presents some results of a joint interdisciplinary researchproject, The Stora Förvar Cave and Gotlands peopling, faunal history and subsistence economy/diet development from the Boreal to the Subatlantic, initiated by Christian Lindqvist in 1991. Its objectives include investigations of a number of crucial issues in a long-term perspective, such as the initial settlement, the early faunal history, the early subsistence economy and die…
Use of Bomb-Produced 14 C to Evaluate the Amount of CO 2 Emanating from Two Peat Bogs in Finland
We used moss increment counting to obtain well-defined samples of the topmost peat layers of two Sphagnum fuscum hummocks. The two ombrotrophic bogs, Lakkasuo in central Finland and Korvinsuo in eastern Finland, are of different ages, covering 3 and 9 ka, respectively. Using AMS dating, we traced bomb-produced 14 C through the topmost parts of the two peat profiles. A well-defined 14 C activity peak was found in both sequences dating the correspo…
The Swedish Time Scale
The Swedish Time Scale (STS) is a ca. 13,300-yr-long varve chronology that has been established for the Swedish east coast from >1000 overlapping clay-varve diagrams. We describe the present state of the STS and illustrate the application of this worldwide unique varve chronology for AMS radiocarbon measurements. The results are compared to other 14 C-dated calendar-year chronologies: dendrochronology, laminated lake sediments and U/Th. Our data …
Age, geochemistry and distribution of the mid-Holocene Hekla-S/Kebister tephra
The middle Holocene Hekla-S/Kebister tephra originates in the Hekla volcanic system on SW Iceland. The distal distribution of the tephra includes the Faroe Islands, Shetland and Central Sweden, indicating a main dispersal towards the east. The chemical composition of the tephra follows the pattern of other major eruptions of Hekla, and ratios between selected oxides may in some cases allow separation from other major Holocene tephras from Hekla. …
The lateglacial vegetation and radiocarbon dating of Lake Trilistnika, Rila Mountains (Bulgaria)
Precision and accuracy in applied 14C dating
AMS Radiocarbon Measurements from the Swedish Varved Clays
The Swedish varve chronology, or Swedish Time Scale, is an annual chronology based upon the successive correlation of more than 1000 varve-thickness diagrams. The Late Glacial-Early Holocene varved clays were deposited as glaciolacustrine sediments in the Baltic Sea during the recession of the Scandinavian ice sheet. Formation of varved clays continued throughout the Holocene and is still going on in the estuary of River ångermanälven in northern…
The Holocene vegetation history of Northern Pirin Mountain, southwestern Bulgaria
Pollen analysis was performed on a 343 cm long core recovered from Lake Ribno Banderishko (2190 m) on Northern Pirin Mountain (southwestern Bulgaria), supplemented by six ' 4 C AMS dates. The lower part of the sequence (343-290 cm) was deposited during the Lateglacial when mountain-steppe vegetation with Artemnisia, Poaceae, Chenopodiaceae and other herbs, and with stands of Pinus and Juniperus, dominated at high altitudes. The identification of …
Radiocarbon dating of iron
The low requirement on sample size (>0.1 mg carbon) in the accelerator radiocarbon dating technique makes direct dating of iron possible by analysis of the carbon incorporated during the melting process when the iron was manufactured. The uncertainties caused by indirect dating of iron blooms, slag and artefacts, etc., by associated organic material, e.g. charcoal, can thus be avoided. Since iron contains 0.01–4.5% carbon, 10–500 mg is enough for…
Lateglacial to Holocene vegetation development in the Central Rila Mountains, Bulgaria
The vegetation history of the Central Rila Mountains for the last 14,000 years was reconstructed by means of pollen analysis and radiocarbon chronology of a core retrieved from Lake Manastirsko-2 (2326 m). The Lateglacial landscape was dominated by open herb vegetation composed of Artemisia, Chenopodiaceae, Poaceae, and other cold-resistant herbs (14,000–11,700 cal. yr BP). Stands of Pinus, Betula, and Juniperus–Ephedra shrubland partly enlarged …
The problem of the neolithisation process chronology in Povolzhye
The Lower and Middle Volga basin regions border the Caucasus and Central Asia in the South. These regions are important in the study of the neolithisation process in Europe and the chronology of Neolithic cultures is of great significance in this respect. New 14C dates of different organic materials from archaeological sites in these regions have been obtained in the last five years. According to these data, the beginning of neolithisation in Nor…
The Radiocarbon Intracavity Optogalvanic Spectroscopy Setup at Uppsala
Accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) is by far the predominant technology deployed for radiocarbon tracer studies. Applications are widespread from archaeology to biological, environmental, and pharmaceutical sciences. In spite of its excellent performance, AMS is expensive and complicated to operate. Consequently, alternative detection techniques for 14 C are of great interest, with the vision of a compact, user-friendly, and inexpensive analytic…
Unstable early-Holocene climatic and environmental conditions in northwestern Russia derived from a multidisciplinary study of a lake-sediment sequence from Pichozero, southeastern Russian Karelia
A sediment core from Lake Pichozero (6146'; N, 3725'; E 118 m a.s.l.) provides information on the environmental and climatic conditions in southeastern Russian Karelia during the Lateglacial and early Holocene (12 800-9300 cal. BP). The chronology of the sequence is constrainied by varve counting and AMS 14 C measurement of terrestrial plant macrofossils. Multiproxy analyses (magnetic susceptibility, grain size, TOC, TN, TS, Rock Eval, pollen and…
How reliable are radiocarbon laboratories? A report on the Fourth International Radiocarbon Inter-comparison (Firi) (1998-2001)
Radiocarbon laboratories undertake rigorous programmes of internal quality control (QC) and overall quality assurance (QA). In a laboratory "inter-comparison" samples of the same age are dated at different laboratories using a range of techniques and the results are then compared. The authors summarise the results of the fourth of these scientific audits
The First 14 C Dating of Monuments in European Scythia
The first radiocarbon dates for the famous monuments of European Scythia were produced for the Kelermes, Seven Brothers, Solocha and Chertomlyk barrows (burial mounds) by both accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) and conventional methods. The obtained 14 C dates confirmed the traditional archaeological chronology, which was based on the analysis of written data and typological comparisons of Scythian artifacts with similar objects found in the Anc…
Radiocarbon dating by the accelerator technique
Radiometric dating of archaeological samples by the accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) technique is well established today. The main advantage of this method compared to the old decay counting procedure is the small sample size (1 mg carbon equivalent weight) needed to carry out a dating. The basic principles as well as the present status of the technique are presented. Experiences from the first year of routine measurements in the Uppsala labor…
C Activity in Different Sections and Chemical Fractions of Oak Tree Rings, AD 1938–1981
The 14 C activity in rings from an oak tree grown in a suburb of Uppsala, Sweden has been studied for the period, AD 1938 to 1981. We compare the results with the atmospheric carbon dioxide records from Abisko, northern Sweden, where local or regional contamination from fossil-fuel combustion can be disregarded. We assess the influence from different chemical pretreatment procedures in use and compare HCl-NaOH-HCl treatment with cellulose extract…
C AMS measurements from the Late Weichselian part of the Swedish Time Scale
The Swedish Time Scale
The Swedish Time Scale (STS) is a ca. 13,300-yr-long varve chronology that has been established for the Swedish east coast from >1000 overlapping clay-varve diagrams. We describe the present state of the STS and illustrate the application of this worldwide unique varve chronology for AMS radiocarbon measurements. The results are compared to other 14 C-dated calendar-year chronologies: dendrochronology, laminated lake sediments and U/Th. Our data …
Use of Bomb-Produced 14 C to Evaluate the Amount of CO 2 Emanating from Two Peat Bogs in Finland
We used moss increment counting to obtain well-defined samples of the topmost peat layers of two Sphagnum fuscum hummocks. The two ombrotrophic bogs, Lakkasuo in central Finland and Korvinsuo in eastern Finland, are of different ages, covering 3 and 9 ka, respectively. Using AMS dating, we traced bomb-produced 14 C through the topmost parts of the two peat profiles. A well-defined 14 C activity peak was found in both sequences dating the correspo…
Radiocarbon dating of iron
The low requirement on sample size (>0.1 mg carbon) in the accelerator radiocarbon dating technique makes direct dating of iron possible by analysis of the carbon incorporated during the melting process when the iron was manufactured. The uncertainties caused by indirect dating of iron blooms, slag and artefacts, etc., by associated organic material, e.g. charcoal, can thus be avoided. Since iron contains 0.01–4.5% carbon, 10–500 mg is enough for…
Paleomagnetic Constraints on Sedimentation Rates in the Eastern Arctic Ocean
Deep-sea sediments recovered from six sites visited during the International Arctic Ocean Expedition of 1991 were examined to determine sedimentation rates in the eastern Arctic Ocean basin. The dearth of age-diagnostic biogenic material in these sediments precludes the application of biostratigraphic methods, but ages can be deduced using paleomagnetism, in conjunction with measurements of radiocarbon and carbonate concentration. Although no one…
New Radiocarbon Dates for the Vedde Ash and the Saksunarvatn Ash from Western Norway
The Vedde Ash Bed (mid-Younger Dryas) and the Saksunarvatn Ash (early Holocene) are important regional stratigraphic event markers in the North Atlantic, the Norwegian Sea, and the adjacent land area. It is thus essential to date them as precisely as possible. The occurrence of the Saksunarvatn Ash is reported for the first time from western Norway, and both tephras are dated precisely by AMS analyses of terrestrial plant material and lake sedime…
Synchronized Terrestrial Atmospheric Deglacial Records Around the North Atlantic
On the basis of synchronization of three carbon-14 ( 14 C)-dated lacustrine sequences from Sweden with tree ring and ice core records, the absolute age of the Younger Dryas-Preboreal climatic shift was determined to be 11,450 to 11,390 ± 80 years before the present. A 150-year-long cooling in the early Preboreal, associated with rising Δ 14 C values, is evident in all records and indicates an ocean ventilation change. This cooling is similar to e…
The First 14 C Dating of Monuments in European Scythia
The first radiocarbon dates for the famous monuments of European Scythia were produced for the Kelermes, Seven Brothers, Solocha and Chertomlyk barrows (burial mounds) by both accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) and conventional methods. The obtained 14 C dates confirmed the traditional archaeological chronology, which was based on the analysis of written data and typological comparisons of Scythian artifacts with similar objects found in the Anc…
A calendar age estimate of the Younger Dryas-Holocene boundary at Kråkenes, western Norway
The Younger Dryas/Holocene transition (YD/H) in the sediments of Kråkenes Lake, western Nor way, is well marked both lithologically and palaeobiologically at 756.5 cm in the investigated core. A series of 70 AMS radiocarbon dates on terrestrial plant macrofossils and the NaOH-soluble fraction of lake sediment was measured between 585 and 840 cm, covering the time span c. 10 440 to 7915 BP on the radiocarbon timescale. Forty-three of these dates a…
AMS Radiocarbon Measurements from the Swedish Varved Clays
The Swedish varve chronology, or Swedish Time Scale, is an annual chronology based upon the successive correlation of more than 1000 varve-thickness diagrams. The Late Glacial-Early Holocene varved clays were deposited as glaciolacustrine sediments in the Baltic Sea during the recession of the Scandinavian ice sheet. Formation of varved clays continued throughout the Holocene and is still going on in the estuary of River ångermanälven in northern…
Variation in 14C age of macrofossils and different fractions of minute peat samples dated by AMS
Accurate 14 C dating of peat samples is crucial if peat stratigraphies are to be used as historical archives. To analyse the variation in 14 C age within small peat samples, the 14 C age of different mire plant remains and peat fractions (n = 39) from 2 cm thick peat slices was determined using accelerator mass spectrometry. The 14 C ages of mosses were assumed to be the most accurate. To verify this we also tested the possibility that uncertaint…
A Chronology of the Scythian Antiquities of Eurasia Based on New Archaeological and 14 C Data
The paper is compares the chronology of the monuments of the Scythian epoch located in the east and west of the Eurasian steppe zone on the basis of both archaeological and radiocarbon data. The lists of 14 C dates for the monuments located in different parts of Eurasia are presented according to the periods of their existence. Generally, the 14 C dates are confirmed the archaeological point of view and allow us to compare the chronological posit…
Late-Glacial and Early Holocene Environmental and Climatic Change at Lake Tambichozero, Southeastern Russian Karelia
High-resolution lithostratigraphy, mineral magnetic, carbon, pollen, and macrofossil analyses, and accelerator mass spectrometry 14 C measurements were performed in the study of a sediment sequence from Lake Tambichozero, southeastern Russian Karelia, to reconstruct late-glacial and early Holocene aquatic and terrestrial environmental changes. The lake formed ca. 14,000 cal yr B.P. and the area around the lake was subsequently colonized by arctic…
The Holocene vegetation history of Northern Pirin Mountain, southwestern Bulgaria
Pollen analysis was performed on a 343 cm long core recovered from Lake Ribno Banderishko (2190 m) on Northern Pirin Mountain (southwestern Bulgaria), supplemented by six ' 4 C AMS dates. The lower part of the sequence (343-290 cm) was deposited during the Lateglacial when mountain-steppe vegetation with Artemnisia, Poaceae, Chenopodiaceae and other herbs, and with stands of Pinus and Juniperus, dominated at high altitudes. The identification of …
How reliable are radiocarbon laboratories? A report on the Fourth International Radiocarbon Inter-comparison (Firi) (1998-2001)
Radiocarbon laboratories undertake rigorous programmes of internal quality control (QC) and overall quality assurance (QA). In a laboratory "inter-comparison" samples of the same age are dated at different laboratories using a range of techniques and the results are then compared. The authors summarise the results of the fourth of these scientific audits
Late Holocene climatic changes in Tierra del Fuego based on multiproxy analyses of peat deposits.
A ca. 1400-yr record from a raised bog in Isla Grande, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina, registers climate fluctuations, including a Medieval Warm Period, although evidence for the ‘Little Ice Age’ is less clear. Changes in temperature and/or precipitation were inferred from plant macrofossils, pollen, fungal spores, testate amebae, and peat humification. The chronology was established using a 14 C wiggle-matching technique that provides improved age …
No Evidence of Neandertal mtDNA Contribution to Early Modern Humans
The retrieval of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) sequences from four Neandertal fossils from Germany, Russia, and Croatia has demonstrated that these individuals carried closely related mtDNAs that are not found among current humans. However, these results do not definitively resolve the question of a possible Neandertal contribution to the gene pool of modern humans since such a contribution might have been erased by genetic drift or by the continuous…
Palaeolimnological and sedimentary responses to Holocene forest retreat in the Scandes Mountains, west-central Sweden
A suite of analyses was performed on sediments accumulated during the last 10 700 years in Lake Spaime, a small, hydrologically open water body in the modem alpine tundra zone of the Scandes Mountains, west-central Sweden. The study aimed to evaluate (1) the nature of climate changes that forced the late-Holocene lowering of altitudinal tree limit in the region, the timing of which is known from prior studies based on radiocarbon dating of subfos…
Unstable early-Holocene climatic and environmental conditions in northwestern Russia derived from a multidisciplinary study of a lake-sediment sequence from Pichozero, southeastern Russian Karelia
A sediment core from Lake Pichozero (6146'; N, 3725'; E 118 m a.s.l.) provides information on the environmental and climatic conditions in southeastern Russian Karelia during the Lateglacial and early Holocene (12 800-9300 cal. BP). The chronology of the sequence is constrainied by varve counting and AMS 14 C measurement of terrestrial plant macrofossils. Multiproxy analyses (magnetic susceptibility, grain size, TOC, TN, TS, Rock Eval, pollen and…
Precision and accuracy in applied 14C dating
Prehistoric peyote use
The lateglacial vegetation and radiocarbon dating of Lake Trilistnika, Rila Mountains (Bulgaria)
Collection of radiocarbon dates on the mammoths ( Mammuthus Primigenius ) and other genera of Wrangel Island, northeast Siberia, Russia
We present and discuss a full list of radiocarbon dates for woolly mammoth and other species of the Mammoth fauna available from Wrangel Island, northeast Siberia, Russia. Most of the radiocarbon dates are published here for the first time. Of the124 radiocarbon dates on mammoth bone, 106 fall between 3700 and 9000 yr ago. We believe these dates bracket the period of mammoth isolation on Wrangel Island and their ultimate extinction, which we attr…
Geography (29 works) · Radiocarbon dating (27 works) · Archaeology (24 works) · Geology (22 works) · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (22 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (21 works) · Physical geography (20 works) · Holocene (19 works) · Paleontology (14 works) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (13 works)