It is said that just near and above Kashmir some woolly mammoth skeletons were unearthed. They were said to be alive as late as 10,000-15,000 BP. But their extinction elsewhere was much earlier, with the exception of the arctic circle islands like the Wrangel island and St. Paul's island where they perished even later. This global disparity appears to be more for these giant mammals than many others. Why ?
Alexander B. Missyul’
In fact, this is quite typical range. Quaternary Science Reviews 21 (2002) 1559–1569 gives the latest dates ~12000BP in Britain, ~14000BP in Germany, ~10000BP in Estonia, ~12000-13000BP in Central Russia and Ukraine, ~10000BP in Northwest Russia and Siberia.
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