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QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS
Volume 28, Issue 25-26, Pages 2551-2556Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2009.08.010
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- Leverhulme Trust funded
- The Hunterian Museum of the University of Glasgow
- Natural Environment Research Council [bgs05001, NE/C509158/1, NRCF010002] Funding Source: researchfish
- NERC [NRCF010002, bgs05001] Funding Source: UKRI
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Woolly rhinoceros bones, from a number of sites in Britain, have been AMS radiocarbon dated following ultrafiltration pre-treatment. These determinations give a coherent set of ages between >50 and c. 35 cal ka BP. The youngest (35,864-34,765 cal BP) come from the area around Bishopbriggs in western central Scotland and are derived from glaciofluvial sand and gravel overlain by till, both deposited during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) glaciation. A previous radiocarbon date from the site suggested that woolly rhinoceros lived c. 27 C-14 ka BP and the region was ice-free at the time. This date has had significant influence on the timing of extinction of woolly rhinoceros and the onset of glaciation over Britain during the LGM. The new dates revise this earlier determination and confirm that woolly rhinoceros became extinct in Britain after c. 35 cal ka BP, that central Scotland was ice-free at this time, and glaciation extended across this region sometime after 35 cal ka BR (C) 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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