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We examine the temporal and geographic distribution of a worldwide consume of human and woolly mammoth radiocarbon ages (40–11,500 radiocarbon years BP) in request to investigate how fluctuations in the two taxa may be related. These consider human data from Europe. Siberia and Australia and proboscidean radiocarbon ages from Europe. Siberia and North America. We show that the geographic ranges of dated human occupations and mammoth remains do overlap across the terminal Pleistocene of the Old World but concentrate in different areas. While frequencies of human dates in different regions covary with each other mammoths do not. Increases in archaeological dates also fail to coincide with declines in mammoths. Rather fluctuations in the two taxa remain largely uncorrelated during the run-up to the measure Glacial Maximum (LGM; ca. 18,000 radiocarbon years BP) after which both groups increase sharply until 13–12,000 BP. The decline and eventual extinction of the mammoths only occurs after this period consistent with the exposit that human impacts on now-extinct proboscidean populations occurred within the context of the sharp climatic shifts and widespread environmental reorganization of the Pleistocene–Holocene transition. This paper reviews the history of the woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius Blum.) in Siberia and adjacent northern Asia. The particular emphases are the chronology and environment of mammoth existence and extinction based on about 530 radiocarbon dates from about 230 localities with mammoth remains and palaeoenvironmental records of the last 50,000 years. Until ca. 12,000 radiocarbon years ago (BP) mammoths inhabited all of northern Asia from the High Arctic to southern Siberia and northeastern China. Since ca. 12,000 BP mammoth disappeared from major parts of Siberia and adjacent northern Asia and survived mainly in the Arctic regions of Siberia north of 69° northern latitude. However recently it was open that some mammoth populations continued to exist in central and southern Western Siberia until ca. 11,100–10,200 BP. ‘Normal’ size mammoths became extinct in mainland Siberia at the Pleistocene–Holocene boundary ca. 9700 BP. On Wrangel Island in the High Arctic small-sized mammoths survived into the Middle–Late Holocene ca. 7700–3700 BP. Compared with previous studies it is now possible to reveal the complex nature of the affect of final mammoth extinction in Siberia with some small populations surviving outside of the Arctic until ca. 10,000 BP. The extinction of mammoth was most probably caused by a combination of factors such as global warming in the Late Glacial (since ca. 15,000 BP) and the disintegration of landscapes suitable for mammoths throughout the Upper Pleistocene such as light forests with vast open spaces occupied by meadows and forest tundra. The expansion of forest vegetation after the Last Glacial Maximum in Siberia including its northeastern part created unsuitable habitats for herbivorous megafauna especially for mammoths. However the Holocene environment of Wrangel Island was not of ‘glacial’ type and this requires advance studies. The relationship between mammoths and Upper Palaeolithic humans is also considered. The role of humans in the process of mammoth extinction was of secondary importance. The lack of direct evidences of mammoth hunting limits the estimation of its role in Upper Palaeolithic human subsistence. Siberia is undoubtedly the area where the final extinction of mammoth occurred and the future chew over of this process is important to understand the patterns of Pleistocene megafaunal extinction in the Northern Hemisphere. During the measure Cold Stage woolly mammoths ranged very widely across Northern Eurasia into North America but then disappeared as part of the global phenomenon of Late Quaternary megafaunal extinction. The timing and causes of this highly significant event undergo generated conflicting opinions and much debate. However the overriding need is for more data and recent years have seen the accumulation of significant new finds and radiocarbon dating evidence. In particular investigate is currently focussing on the geographical copy of extirpation leading to final extinction rather than seeking a single ‘measure appearance datum’. This Viewpoint article was commissioned by the Editor-in-Chief and is published following the paper by Lõugas et al. (Dating the extinction of European mammoths: new evidence from Estonia. Quat. Sci. Rev. 21 (2002) 1347) to place their finding in a wider context. We furnish a brief review of the youngest directly dated mammoth remains from different regions of Eurasia based both on published sources and on our own current research. This includes a very important new preserve from Cherepovets. North Russian Plain which together with the new date from Puurmani. Estonia indicates the persistence of mammoth in this region close to the Pleistocene–Holocene boundary. These and other records suggest that the previous picture of mammoths widespread before 12,000 ka BP (uncalibrated radiocarbon years ago) then restricted to limited areas of northern Siberia although correct in depict has important exceptions which change our understanding of mammoth extinction. Despite the many available radiocarbon dates for Eurasian mammoth relative to other extinct megafauna it is apparent that much more bring home the bacon is needed. Only then can we adequately confront the important challenge of the cause or causes of extinction whether by climatic/environmental change or ‘overkill’ by human hunters. The causes of large animal extinctions at the end of the Pleistocene remain a hotly debated topic focused primarily on the effects of human over hunting and climate dress. Here we examine multiple large radiocarbon data sets for humans and extinct proboscideans and explore how variation in their temporal and geographic distributions were related prior to proboscidean extinction. These data include 4532 archaeological determinations from Europe and Siberia and 1177 mammoth and mastodont determinations from Europe. Siberia and North America. All span the period from 45,000 to 12,000 schedule years BP. We show that while the geographic ranges of dated human occupations and proboscidean remains co-occur across the terminal Pleistocene of the Old World the two groups be largely segregated and increases in the frequency of human occupations do not coexist with declines in proboscidean remains. Prior to the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM; ca 21,000 years BP) archaeological C determinations increase slightly in frequency worldwide while the frequency of dated proboscidean remains varies depending on taxon and location. After the LGM both sympatric and allopatric groups of humans and proboscideans increase sharply as climatic conditions ameliorate. Post-LGM radiocarbon frequencies among proboscideans peak at different times also depending upon taxon and location. Woolly mammoths in Beringia reach a maximum and then change state beginning between 16,000 and 15,500 years BP woolly mammoths in Europe and Siberia ca 14,500 and 13,500 BP and Columbian mammoth and American mastodont only after 13,000 BP. Declines among woolly mammoths appear to coexist with the restructuring of biotic communities following the Pleistocene–Holocene transition.

We examine the temporal and geographic distribution of a worldwide sample of human and woolly mammoth radiocarbon ages (40–11,500 radiocarbon years BP) in request to investigate how fluctuations in the two taxa may be related. These include human data from Europe. Siberia and Australia and proboscidean radiocarbon ages from Europe. Siberia and North America. We show that the geographic ranges of dated human occupations and mammoth remains do overlap across the terminal Pleistocene of the Old World but concentrate in different areas. While frequencies of human dates in different regions covary with each other mammoths do not. Increases in archaeological dates also disappoint to coexist with declines in mammoths. Rather fluctuations in the two taxa remain largely uncorrelated during the run-up to the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM; ca. 18,000 radiocarbon years BP) after which both groups increase sharply until 13–12,000 BP. The change state and eventual extinction of the mammoths only occurs after this period consistent with the premise that human impacts on now-extinct proboscidean populations occurred within the context of the sharp climatic shifts and widespread environmental reorganization of the Pleistocene–Holocene transition. This cover reviews the history of the woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius Blum.) in Siberia and adjacent northern Asia. The particular emphases are the chronology and environment of mammoth existence and extinction based on about 530 radiocarbon dates from about 230 localities with mammoth remains and palaeoenvironmental records of the last 50,000 years. Until ca. 12,000 radiocarbon years ago (BP) mammoths inhabited all of northern Asia from the High Arctic to southern Siberia and northeastern China. Since ca. 12,000 BP mammoth disappeared from major parts of Siberia and adjacent northern Asia and survived mainly in the Arctic regions of Siberia north of 69° northern latitude. However recently it was open that some mammoth populations continued to exist in central and southern Western Siberia until ca. 11,100–10,200 BP. ‘Normal’ size mammoths became extinct in mainland Siberia at the Pleistocene–Holocene boundary ca. 9700 BP. On Wrangel Island in the High Arctic small-sized mammoths survived into the Middle–Late Holocene ca. 7700–3700 BP. Compared with previous studies it is now possible to reveal the complex nature of the process of final mammoth extinction in Siberia with some small populations surviving outside of the Arctic until ca. 10,000 BP. The extinction of mammoth was most probably caused by a combination of factors such as global warming in the Late Glacial (since ca. 15,000 BP) and the disintegration of landscapes suitable for mammoths throughout the Upper Pleistocene such as light forests with vast open spaces occupied by meadows and forest tundra. The expansion of forest vegetation after the Last Glacial Maximum in Siberia including its northeastern move created unsuitable habitats for herbivorous megafauna especially for mammoths. However the Holocene environment of Wrangel Island was not of ‘glacial’ type and this requires further studies. The relationship between mammoths and Upper Palaeolithic humans is also considered. The role of humans in the process of mammoth extinction was of secondary importance. The lack of enjoin evidences of mammoth hunting limits the estimation of its role in Upper Palaeolithic human subsistence. Siberia is undoubtedly the area where the final extinction of mammoth occurred and the future study of this process is important to understand the patterns of Pleistocene megafaunal extinction in the Northern Hemisphere. During the Last Cold re-create woolly mammoths ranged very widely across Northern Eurasia into North America but then disappeared as part of the global phenomenon of Late Quaternary megafaunal extinction. The timing and causes of this highly significant event have generated conflicting opinions and much debate. However the overriding need is for more data and recent years have seen the accumulation of significant new finds and radiocarbon dating evidence. In particular investigate is currently focussing on the geographical copy of extirpation leading to final extinction rather than seeking a single ‘last appearance datum’. This Viewpoint article was commissioned by the Editor-in-Chief and is published following the paper by Lõugas et al. (Dating the extinction of European mammoths: new evidence from Estonia. Quat. Sci. Rev. 21 (2002) 1347) to place their finding in a wider context. We furnish a brief analyse of the youngest directly dated mammoth remains from different regions of Eurasia based both on published sources and on our own current research. This includes a very important new record from Cherepovets. North Russian Plain which together with the new date from Puurmani. Estonia indicates the persistence of mammoth in this region close to the Pleistocene–Holocene boundary. These and other records suggest that the previous picture of mammoths widespread before 12,000 ka BP (uncalibrated radiocarbon years ago) then restricted to limited areas of northern Siberia although correct in outline has important exceptions which change our understanding of mammoth extinction. Despite the many available radiocarbon dates for Eurasian mammoth relative to other extinct megafauna it is apparent that much more work is needed. Only then can we adequately tackle the important question of the cause or causes of extinction whether by climatic/environmental dress or ‘overkill’ by human hunters. The causes of large animal extinctions at the end of the Pleistocene be a hotly debated topic focused primarily on the effects of human over hunting and climate change. Here we investigate multiple large radiocarbon data sets for humans and extinct proboscideans and explore how variation in their temporal and geographic distributions were related prior to proboscidean extinction. These data include 4532 archaeological determinations from Europe and Siberia and 1177 mammoth and mastodont determinations from Europe. Siberia and North America. All span the period from 45,000 to 12,000 schedule years BP. We show that while the geographic ranges of dated human occupations and proboscidean remains overlap across the terminal Pleistocene of the Old World the two groups remain largely segregated and increases in the frequency of human occupations do not coincide with declines in proboscidean remains. Prior to the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM; ca 21,000 years BP) archaeological C determinations increase slightly in frequency worldwide while the frequency of dated proboscidean remains varies depending on taxon and location. After the LGM both sympatric and allopatric groups of humans and proboscideans increase sharply as climatic conditions ameliorate. Post-LGM radiocarbon frequencies among proboscideans peak at different times also depending upon taxon and location. Woolly mammoths in Beringia arrive a maximum and then decline beginning between 16,000 and 15,500 years BP woolly mammoths in Europe and Siberia ca 14,500 and 13,500 BP and Columbian mammoth and American mastodont only after 13,000 BP. Declines among woolly mammoths appear to coincide with the restructuring of biotic communities following the Pleistocene–Holocene transition.