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.
Yeah, this seems limited to known remains in Europe.
I believe the article was talking about the mammoths of North Western Europe and not about Wrangel island or the world in general.
Yes, the Wrangel island mammoths were an interesting thing. I believe they had become dwarves. It’s too bad they were killed off, it would be cool of some were to have survived until the present.
They became dwarves because of scarcity of resources. They say one of the ‘string figures’ ( like cat’s cradles) the Eskimo make is a figure of a mammoth.