TY - JOUR
T1 - First Documented Camelus knoblochi Nehring (1901) and Fossil Camelus ferus Przewalski (1878) From Late Pleistocene Archaeological Contexts in Mongolia
AU - Klementiev, Alexey M.
AU - Khatsenovich, Arina M.
AU - Tserendagva, Yadmaa
AU - Rybin, Evgeny P.
AU - Bazargur, Dashzeveg
AU - Marchenko, Daria V.
AU - Gunchinsuren, Byambaa
AU - Derevianko, Anatoly P.
AU - Olsen, John W.
N1 - Funding Information:
Faunal studies were supported by the Russian Scientific Foundation, Project 19-78-10112. Field investigations were undertaken with support from the Leakey Foundation and the Je Tsongkhapa Endowment for Central and Inner Asian Archaeology. Our fieldwork permit (#1–-14) was kindly provided to B. Gunchinsuren and D. Bazargur by the Mongolian Government.
Funding Information:
Faunal studies were supported by the Russian Scientific Foundation, Project 19-78-10112. Field investigations were undertaken with support from the Leakey Foundation and the Je Tsongkhapa Endowment for Central and Inner Asian Archaeology. Our fieldwork permit (#1?-14) was kindly provided to B. Gunchinsuren and D. Bazargur by the Mongolian Government.
Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2022 Klementiev, Khatsenovich, Tserendagva, Rybin, Bazargur, Marchenko, Gunchinsuren, Derevianko and Olsen.
PY - 2022/3/14
Y1 - 2022/3/14
N2 - Throughout the arid lands of Africa and Eurasia, camelids facilitated the expansion of human populations into areas that would not likely have been habitable without the transportation abilities of this animal along with the organic resources it provides, including dung, meat, milk, leather, wool, and bones. The two-humped, Bactrian, species of Camelus, C. ferus in its wild state and C. bactrianus when domesticated, is much more poorly known in prehistoric archaeological contexts than its single-humped congeneric, C. dromedarius. Our research uses a convergence of evidence approach to analyze reports and remains of Plio-Pleistocene camelids in Central and Northern Asia and trace the latest-known fossil Bactrian relative, Camelus knoblochi, that seems to have survived in the Gobi Desert until the Last Glacial Maximum (ca. 26.5–19 ka). Rock art depictions, some of which may be of Pleistocene age, record the complexity of nascent human-camel interactions and provide the impetus for further archaeological studies of both the origins of C. bactrianus and its increasingly complex relationships with the highly mobile prehistoric peoples of Central and Northern Asia.
AB - Throughout the arid lands of Africa and Eurasia, camelids facilitated the expansion of human populations into areas that would not likely have been habitable without the transportation abilities of this animal along with the organic resources it provides, including dung, meat, milk, leather, wool, and bones. The two-humped, Bactrian, species of Camelus, C. ferus in its wild state and C. bactrianus when domesticated, is much more poorly known in prehistoric archaeological contexts than its single-humped congeneric, C. dromedarius. Our research uses a convergence of evidence approach to analyze reports and remains of Plio-Pleistocene camelids in Central and Northern Asia and trace the latest-known fossil Bactrian relative, Camelus knoblochi, that seems to have survived in the Gobi Desert until the Last Glacial Maximum (ca. 26.5–19 ka). Rock art depictions, some of which may be of Pleistocene age, record the complexity of nascent human-camel interactions and provide the impetus for further archaeological studies of both the origins of C. bactrianus and its increasingly complex relationships with the highly mobile prehistoric peoples of Central and Northern Asia.
KW - Camelus knoblochi
KW - Mongolia
KW - eastern Central Asia
KW - human-animal interactions
KW - paleontology
KW - pleistocene
KW - taxonomy
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U2 - 10.3389/feart.2022.861163
DO - 10.3389/feart.2022.861163
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85128357322
SN - 2296-6463
VL - 10
JO - Frontiers in Earth Science
JF - Frontiers in Earth Science
M1 - 861163
ER -