N. I. DROZDOV, V. P. CHEKHOVInstitute of Archeology and Ethnography SB RAS Laboratory of Archeology and Paleogeography of Central Siberia Krasnoyarsk, Akademgorodok, 660036, Russia E-mail: drozdov@ kspu.ru checha@ kspu.ru Introduction One of the phenomena of the Quaternary period was the so-called mammoth fauna. Questions of natural living conditions and the causes of the extinction of some of its representatives, including mammoths, are debatable [Vereshchagin, 1979; Verkhovskaya, 1988; Puchkov, 2001; Sher, 1997; etc.]. The Taimyr Peninsula belongs to the regions of the Russian Subarctic and Arctic that are most saturated with mammoth remains dating in a wide range to the late neo-Pleistocene-Holocene. Thus, the peninsula was one of the places of the most recent residence and subsequent extinction of mammoths. The Quaternary period in the history of the Taimyr Peninsula has been studied in much more detail than, for example, the northern and central parts of the Central Siberian Plateau. The most significant are the results of research conducted by industry and academic institutions in the late 1930s and 1940s in connection with the development of the Northern Sea Route. These surveys involved:: Geological Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Institute of Arctic Geology (NIIGA), Institute of Arctic and Antarctic Research (AARI, Glavsevmorput). Large-scale geological surveys were carried out here in the 1970s and 1980s by the production geological associations Aerogeologiya and Krasnoyarskgeologiya. Employees of the Biological and Zoological Institutes of the USSR Academy of Sciences conducted paleobotanical and paleozoological research for many years. In the 1990s, the study of the Quaternary period was continued by scientists of the AARI. In parallel with the listed works, studies were conducted on the locations of mammoth remains. Despite many years of studying the nature of Taimyr in the Quaternary period, many issues of paleogeography and paleolandscape s ... Read more