Wrangel (eilân): ferskil tusken ferzjes

This remote Arctic Island is believed to be the final place on Earth to support Woolly Mammoths as an isolated population until their extinction 4000 years ago, making them the most recent surviving population known to science.<ref name="Vartanyan1" /><ref name="Vartanyan1995">{{cite journal |last=Vartanyan. |first=S. L. |authorlink= |coauthors=''et al.'', |year=1995. |month= |title=''Radiocarbon Dating Evidence for Mammoths on Wrangel Island, Arctic Ocean, until 2000 BC |journal=Radiocarbon'' |volume=37yn |issue=1Radiocarbon |pages=1–6 |issn=00338222 |url=[http://packrat.aml.arizona.edu/Journal/v37n1/vartanyan.html |accessdate= |quote= }}]</ref> A specific variant of the species seems to have survived as a dwarf version of the species originating from Siberia. A combination late climate change (warming) and the presence of modern humans using advanced hunting and survival skills probably hastened their demise on this frozen isle which until recently was ice bound for most years with infrequent breaks of clear water in some Arctic summers. A mirror development can be found with the [[Dwarf elephant]] on [[Malta]], originating from the African species.

Evidence for [[PrehistoryPrehistoarje|prehistoricprehistoaryske]] human occupation was uncovered in 1975 at the [[ChertovTsjertov Ovrag]] site.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Dikov, |first=N. N. |year=, 1988 |month= |title=''The Earliest Sea Mammal Hunters of Wrangell Island'' yn |journal=Arctic Anthropology, diel |volume=25, |issue=1siden |pages=80–93 }}</ref> Various stone and [[ivory]] tools were found, including a [[toggling harpoon]]. [[RadiocarbonC12 datingdatearring]] shows the human inhabitation roughly coeval with the last [[mammothmammoet]]sen on the island circa 1700 BCE, though no direct evidence of mammoth hunting has been found.