Jarkow mammoth

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The Yarkov mammoth is a woolly mammoth whose remains were discovered in 1997 on the Taimyr Peninsula in Siberia . The mammoth lived about 20,000 years ago. It was male and, according to age estimates based on the dentition, died at 47 ± 2 years.

discovery

In the summer of 1997, the brothers Simeon and Gennadi Jarkow, Dolganen from the village of Khatanga , 800 km north of the Arctic Circle , about 240 km further north near Novorybnoye , twelve kilometers south of the Bolshaya Balachnja river, discovered the curved one, which protruded about 30 cm from the bottom of the tundra Tip of a mammoth tusk. Gennadij Jarkow reported the find to the administration of the “ Great Arctic Protected Area ”. The Jarkovs dug out one tusk and discovered the second. Both tusks were still in their anatomically correct position. When the Jarkows tried to uncover the find, they damaged the skull, and the lower and upper jaws were largely preserved. The conservation area administration initially did not investigate the find, so the Jarkows contacted the well-known French entrepreneur and mammoth researcher Bernard Buigues (* 1954).

research

In May 1998, a group of participants in the Cerpolex / Mammuthus Expedition (CERcles POLaires EXpedition) led by Bernard Buigues excavated the remains of the skull. On the skull there was a small piece of flesh, skin and a large amount of outer hair and under hair.

In September and October 1999, a 3m was × 3 meter x 2.5 meter tall, 23-ton block of frozen sediment in which the remains of the mammoth there were excavated, on 17 October 1999 with a helicopter Mil Mi-26 lifted and transported on October 18, 1999 under the supervision of Bernard Buigues to an ice cave in Chatanga, which was built in the 1950s as a temporary storage facility for fish and meat. There it was obtained at a constant temperature of −15 ° C. In the ice cave, more than thirty-six scientists from around the world, including Russia's mammoth expert Alexei Tikhonov, studied the find. The excavation and ongoing studies on the Yarkov mammoths were recorded through the Discovery Channel .

Bone marrow and plant samples were sent to various laboratories for analysis of the mammoth. Age dating from the University of Utrecht using the C-14 method revealed an age of 20,380 years.

Scientists have determined that there were two periods when the mammoths left the Arctic Circle, either in search of food or to avoid floods: 34,000 to 30,000 BC. And 17,000 to 12,000 BC The Jarkow mammoth lived between these two periods, around 18,380 BC. Chr.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Dick Mol et al. : The Jarkov Mammoth: 20,000-year-old carcass of a Siberian woolly mammoth Mammuthus primigenius (Blumenbach, 1799). ( Memento of the original from July 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 357 kB) The World of Elephants, Proceedings of the 1st International Congress (October 16-20 October 2001, Rome 2001, pp. 305-309). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sovraintendenzaroma.it
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  5. ↑ a b c Linda DeLaine: Jarkov Mammoth . RussianLife.com. March 15, 2007. Archived from the original on July 15, 2011.

Coordinates: 73 ° 32 ′ 0 ″  N , 105 ° 49 ′ 0 ″  E