Another perspective on the age and origin of the Berelyokh mammoth site Comment to the paper published by Lozhkin and Anderson, Quaternary Research 89 (2018) 459 477
The work reviewed (Lozhkin and Anderson, 2018) concerns the concept of the mass demise of mammoth herds in a hypothetical thermokarst lake resulting in mass bone accumulations. Our research concerning Berelekh (Nikolskiy et al. 2010, 2011; Pitulko, 2011; Pitulko et al. 2014) is quoted comprehensively; however, the work contests, without evidence, our conclusions (Pitulko et al. 2014) which are rooted in geologic facts and deposit chronometry of the Berelekh geoarchaeological complex (BGC hereafter) (Fig. 1).We have both technical and scientific questions for its authors.
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