[agere_contra]

The ages of some of the remains of mammoths on Wrangel Island (an island in the Arctic Ocean) fall in the range 3730 BC to 7390 BC.

[agere_contra]

Sorry, did I say BC? I meant BP, so 2009 years later :0)

This means there is radiocarbon dating evidence of Mammoths on Wrangel Island as little as 4000 years ago. The Shropshire Mammoths are hardly the most recent remains.

[Tainan]

I did a quick ixQuick on that. Thats some interesting stuff. Holocene dwarf mammoths isolated there from the Siberian peninsula.

Abstracts: Holocene dwarf mammoths from Wrangel Island in the Siberian ** However, radiocarbon-dating of mammoth fossils gathered from Wrangel Island in the Siberian Arctic shows that a subpopulation of wooly mammoths survived up to 7,000-4,000 years ago.
www.faqs.org/ abstracts/ Zoology-and-wildlife-conservation/ Holocene-dwarf-mammoths-from-Wrangel-Island-in-the-Siberian-Arctic.ht ml

"It is generally agreed that the wooly mammoth became extinct about 10,000-12,000 years ago. However, radiocarbon-dating of mammoth fossils gathered from Wrangel Island in the Siberian Arctic shows that a subpopulation of wooly mammoths survived up to 7,000-4,000 years ago. Analysis of teeth fossils showed that this subpopulation consisted of normal-sized mammoths and a dwarfed form. The dwarfed form may be the result of insular dwarfing, when Wrengel Island separated from the mainland about 12,000 years ago."