PALEOENVIRONMENT OF MAMMOTH YUKA HABITAT (BASED ON POLLEN DATA)
In August 2010, the well-preserved Mammuthus primigenius carcass was found at the Oyogos Yar coast in the Laptev Sea region. The mammoth was nicknamed Yuka. The frozen sedi- ment sample was taken from the skull for the palynological analysis. Results of palynological re- construction confirm that mammoth Yuka lived in the optimum of Kargin Interstadial (MIS3). The burial place of mammoth could have been a small shallow freshwater pond with stagnant or slow moving water. The banks of this pond might have been covered with ruderal and aquatic plants, while treeless tundra of forbs and grasses represented the regional vegetation.