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

[Paul H.]

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 Qagnaxˆ 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 Qagnaxˆ 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.