Prelude to the extinction: Achchagyi-Allaikha and Berelyokh Mammoth Bone Beds

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A great paper about classic Siberian mammoth bone beds.

 

Nikolskiy, P.A., Basilyan, A.E., Sulerzhitsky, L.D.

and Pitulko, V.V., 2010. Prelude to the extinction:

revision of the Achchagyi–Allaikha and Berelyokh

mass accumulations of mammoth. Quaternary International,

219(1), pp.16-25.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/248478864_Prelude_to_the_extinction_Revision_of_the_Achchagyi-Allaikha_and_Berelyokh_mass_accumulations_of_mammoth

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Pavel_Nikolskiy/publications

 

In part, the abstract reads:

 

"The formation of the burials is a direct consequence of

short but strong climatic warming (Bølling Oscillation)

that resulted in many unfavorable environmental conditions.

Among these, the increase of snow cover and stronger

spring floods were very notable. Bølling warming is a

model of the large-scale Holocene event. Mass death of

mammoths during the Bølling phase was a prelude to their

final extinction."

 

Also, there is:

 

Nikolskiy, P.A., Sulerzhitsky, L.D. and Pitulko, V.V.,

2011. Last straw versus Blitzkrieg overkill: climate-

driven changes in the Arctic Siberian mammoth population

and the Late Pleistocene extinction problem. Quaternary

Science Reviews, 30(17), pp.2309-2328.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/232391380_Last_straw_versus_Blitzkrieg_overkill_Climate-driven_changes_in_the_Arctic_Siberian_mammoth_population_and_the_Late_Pleistocene_extinction_problem

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Pavel_Nikolskiy/publications/2

 

Yours,

 

Paul H.