QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL The Journal of the International Union for Quaternary Research
MAMMOTHS AND THEIR RELATIVES 1: BIOTOPES, EVOLUTION AND HUMAN IMPACT V INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE, LE PUY-EN-VELAY, 2010
Guest Editors
Dr. Frederic Lacombat
Musee Crozatier, Jardin Henri Vinay, 43000 Le Puy-en-Velay, France Email address:[email protected]
Dr. Dick Mol
Research associate, Nat Hist Museum Rotterdam, c/o Gudumholm 41, 2133 HG Hoofddorp, The Netherlands Email address: [email protected]
ELSEVIER
Amsterdam • Boston • London • New York • Oxford • Paris • Philadelphia • San Diego • St. Louis QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL The Journal of the International Union for Quaternary Research
Volume 255 26 March 2012
MAMMOTHS AND THEIR RELATIVES 1: BIOTOPES, EVOLUTION AND HUMAN IMPACT V INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE, LE PUY-EN-VELAY, 2010
Mammoths and their relatives 1: Biotopes, evolution and human impact V internations' conference, Le Puy-en-Velay, 2010 1 F. Lacombat and D. Mol
Giants and pygmies: Mammoths of Santa Rosa Island, California (USA) 2 L.D. Agenbroad
A skeleton of Mammuthus trogontherii (Proboscidea, Elephantidae) from NW Peloponnese, Greece 9 A. Athanassiou
Straight-tusked elephants in the Middle Pleistocene of northern Latium: Preliminary report on the Ficoncella site (Tarquinia, central Italy) 29 D. Aureli, A. Contardi, B. Giaccio, V. Modesti, M.R. Palombo, R. Rozzi, A. Sposato and F. Trucco
A critical appraisal of the phylogenetic proposals for the South American Gomphotheriidae (Proboscidea: Mammalia) 36 M.A. Cozzuol, D. Mothe and L.S. Avilla
Ancient diet of the Pleistocene gomphothere Notiomastodon platensis (Mammalia, Proboscidea, Gomphotheriidae) from lowland mid-latitudes of South America: Stereomicrowear and tooth calculus analyses combined 42 L. Asevedo, G.R. Winck, D. Mothe and L.S. Avilla
Did mammoth end up a lilliput? Temporal body size trends in Late Pleistocene Mammoths, Mammuthus primigenius (Blumenbach, 1799) inferred from dental data 53 N. den Ouden, J.W.F. Reumer and L.W. van den Hoek Ostende
Cave bear killers and scavengers from the last ice age of central Europe: Feeding specializations in response to the absence of mammoth steppe fauna from mountainous regions 59 C. G. Diedrich
The duration and rate of molar plate formation in Palaeoloxodon Cypriotes and Mammuthus columbi from dental histology 79 W. Dirks, T.G. Bromage and L.D. Agenbroad
The late Upper Palaeolithic site of Gontsy (Ukraine): A reference for the reconstruction of the hunter-gatherer system based on a mammoth economy 86 L. Iakovleva, F. Djindjian, E.N. Maschenko, S. Konik and A.-M. Moigne
Anatomy, death, and preservation of a woolly mammoth {Mammuthus primigenius) calf, Yamal Peninsula, northwest Siberia 94 D.C. Fisher, A.N. Tikhonov, P.A. Kosintsev, A.N. Rountrey, B. Buigues and J. van der Plicht
The Muirkirk Mammoth: A Late Pleistocene woolly mammoth {Mammuthusprimigenius) skeleton from southern Ontario, Canada 106 C.R. Harington, D. Mol and J. van der Plicht
Timing of megafaunal extinction in the late Late Pleistocene on the Japanese Archipelago 114 A. Iwase, J. Hashizume, M. Izuho, K. Takahashi and H. Sato
Horns of the woolly rhinoceros Coelodonta antiquitatis (Blumenbach, 1799) in the Ice Age Museum collection (Moscow, Russia) 125 F.K. Sbidlovskiy, I.V. Kirfllova and J. Wood
Contents continued on inside back cover
This Journal is abstracted in Geo Abstr. Curr ContlPhys Chem & Earth Sci & SCISEARCH. Also covered in the abstract and citation database SCOPUS®. Full text available on SdenceDirecP'.
Available online at www.sciencedirect.com SciVerse ScienceDirect
865 Contents continuedfrom outside back cover
The Csaj&g mammoths {Mammuthusprimigenius): Late Pleniglacial finds from Hungary and their chronological significance L. Katona, J. Kovacs, L. Kordos, B. Szappanos and I. Linkai
On the prospects of microbiological research on mammoth fauna in permafrost M.P. Neustroev
The Barma Grande cave (Grimaldi, Vintimiglia, Italy): From Neandertal, hunter of "Elephas antiquus", to Sapiens with ornaments of mammoth ivory G. Onoratini, A. Arellano, A. Del Lucchese, P.E. Moulle and F. Serre
A reappraisal of the dwarfed mammoth Mammuthus lamarmorai (Major, 1883) from Gonnesa (south-western Sardinia, Italy) M.R. Palombo, M.P. Ferretti, G.L. Pillola and L. Chiappini
Ongoing research at the late Middle Pleistocene site of La Polledrara di Cecanibbio (central Italy), with emphasis on human-elephant relationships A.P. Anzidel, G.M. Bulgarelli, P. Catalano, £. Cerilli, R. Gallotti, C. Lemorini, S. Milli, M.R. Palombo, W. Pantano and £. Santucci
An examination of dietary diversity patterns in Pleistocene proboscideans {Mammuthus, Palaeoloxodon, and Mammut) from Europe and North America as revealed by dental microwear F. Rivals, G. Semprebon and A. Lister
Early tooth development, gestation, and season of birth in mammoths A.N. Rountrey, D.C. Fisher, A.N. Tikhonov, P.A. Kosintsev, P.A. Lazarev, G. Boeskorov and B. Buigues
The evolution of Eastern European meridionaloid elephants' dental characteristics V. Baygusheva and V. Titov
New remains of Mammuthus trogontherii from the Early Pleistocene Nihewan beds at Shanshenmiaozui, Hebei H.-W. Tong
Environmental reconstruction inferred from the intestinal contents of the Yamal baby mammoth Lyuba {Mammuthus primigenius Blumenbach, 1799) P.A. Kosintsev, E.G. Lapteva, S.S. Trofimova, O.G. Zanina, A.N. Tikhonov and J. Van der Plicht
Iberian mastodonts: Geographic and stratigraphic distribution A.V. Mazo and J. Van der Made