[meteorite-list] Recent Papers About Extinction of Mammoth in North America

From: Paul H. <oxytropidoceras_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2010 21:51:07 -0600
Message-ID: <20100213225107.7ZCC9.945926.imail_at_eastrmwml38>

Some recent papers about the Late Pleistocene extinction of
mammoths in North America and more data to consider in
evaluating various Pleistocene impacts hypotheses are:

1. Veltre, D. W. David R. Yesner, Kristine J. Crossen, Russell W.
Graham and Joan B. Coltrain, 2008, Extinction of Mammoth in
North America. Quaternary Research, Volume 70, Issue 1,
Pages 40-50

Abstract at http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.yqres.2008.03.006

2. Enk, J. M., D. R. Yesner, K. J. Crossen, D. W. Veltre and D. H.
O'Rourke, 2009, Phylogeographic analysis of the mid-Holocene
Mammoth from Qagnax? Cave, St. Paul Island, Alaska.
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology
Volume 273, Issues 1-2, 1 March 2009, Pages 184-190

Abstract at http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2008.12.019

In part the abstract reads:

"Remains of a woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) were
found in Qagnax? Cave, a lava tube cave on St. Paul Island in the
Pribilof Islands, 500 km west of the Alaskan mainland in the Bering
Sea. Several dates converge on 5725 14C yr BP, making these the
youngest mammoth remains discovered in North America, ...."

3. Woodman, N., and Nancy Beavan Athfield, 2009, Post-Clovis
survival of American Mastodon in the southern Great Lakes
Region of North America. Quaternary Research. Volume 72,
Issue 3, November 2009, Pages 359-363

Abstract at http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.yqres.2009.06.009
PDF file at http://si-pddr.si.edu/dspace/bitstream/10088/8383/1/vz_2009_Mastodon_Woodman_and_Athfield.pdf
and http://si-pddr.si.edu/dspace/handle/10088/8383

Yours,

Paul H.
Received on Sat 13 Feb 2010 10:51:07 PM PST