Paleoecological Conditions of Yuka Mammoth’s Habitat and the Yano-Indigirka Lowland’s Vegetation Patterns during the Late Pleistocene

The vegetation, widespread during the life of a young female mammoth “Yuka”, about 34 300 yr ago (GrA-53289) was reconstructed as a complex of phytocenoses confined to coastal water and floodplain habitats. The main pastures were herb-gramineous floodplain meadows. Here, floodplain shrub communities of birches and alder forests grew, the reservoir was of an lake or swamp, as indicated by the corresponding vegetation. In the presented work, a new method of reconstruction of specific paleophytocenoses is proposed, which makes it possible to take a fresh look at the nature of the vegetation cover of the Late Pleistocene of Yakutia.