Open AccessRadiocarbon dating of a mammoth tusk fragment from Brorfelde, Denmark
Author(s) -
Lotte Selsing
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
bulletin of the geological society of denmark
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.674
H-Index - 28
eISSN - 2245-7070
pISSN - 0011-6297
DOI - 10.37570/bgsd-1982-31-11
Subject(s) - mammoth , radiocarbon dating , archaeology , stadial , geography , paleontology , geology , physical geography , holocene
Fragments of three elephantine tusks have been found in ice transgressed fluvioglacial deposits at Brorfelde, northwestern Sjrelland, Denmark. Four '"C datings have been carried out on one of the fragments (Tusks 2) of a mammoth tusk (Mammuthus primigenius Blumenbach). They constitute the first radiocarbon datings of Danish mammoth material. The age is given as the mean value of two collagen dates, 44 300];:ro years B.P. Techniques of the applied dating procedures are given to elucidate contamination problems and to compare with 1'C datings of mammoth tusks from other localities in northwestern Europe. The date of the Brorfelde Tusk 2 should be regarded as a maximum age of the Brorfelde deposits. The date 44 300 :gg years B.P. of this tusk fragment corresponds relatively well with the earliest Middle Weichselian interstadial recorded in other areas.