Mammoths and other large animals survived in the north much longer than previously
believed. New DNA research indicates that the climate, not humans, led to the demise
of these large creatures, Norway Science, January, 2022
The open access paper is:
Wang, Y., Pedersen, M.W., Alsos, I.G., De Sanctis, B., Racimo, F., Prohaska, A.,
Coissac, E., Owens, H.L., Merkel, M.K.F., Fernandez-Guerra, A. and Rouillard,
A.,2021. Late Quaternary dynamics of Arctic biota from ancient environmental
genomics. Nature, 600(7887), pp.86-92.
It concludes that mammoths survived in continental northeast Siberia until
7,300 BP; North America until 8,600 BP; and the Taimyr Peninsula as late as
3,900 BP.
Yours,
Paul H.