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If the topic is about mammoths, many imagine the times when people hunted them. Representing at the same time spears, stones and half-dressed savages. And their extinction is often represented as some kind of quick and ubiquitous event in the Stone Age, associated with both climate change and hunting. But not so simple! And the mammoths were of different species, and their extinction did not occur so quickly and for various reasons. In addition, the time of the extinction of mammoths is often exaggerated, because the last woolly mammoths became extinct only 3,700 years ago on Wrangel Island. So, when pyramids were already built in ancient Egypt, as well as during the times of the Indian and Mycenaean civilizations, the Hittite kingdom, and against the background of other events of the second half of the Bronze Age, including thousands of years of development of agriculture, woolly mammoths peacefully grazed on Wrangel Island. And the first traces of people on the island are dated precisely by the period of their extinction. But it is worth noting that while within the boundaries of the Chert ravine on the southern coast of Wrangel Island, no evidence of hunting for mammoths was found, only evidence of hunting for marine animals such as walruses was found. Apart from the fact that the tools and tools themselves were not only made of stone, but also of ivory, including harpoons. But why did the #mammoths die out?
#paleontology #science #history #animals
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Based on the article:
Thriving or surviving? The isotopic record of the Wrangel Island woolly mammoth population
Laura Arppe, Juha A. Karhu, Sergey Vartanyan, Dorothée G. Drucker, Heli Etu-Sihvola, Hervé Bocherens
doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2019.105884