Berelyokh mass accumulation in Russia

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Berelyokh mass accumulation
Type	excavation site
Total nrs	140
Number of species	1
Number of animals	140
Region	Siberia
Country	Russia
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History of updates	2021-07-05

Latest document update	2021-07-05 01:04:58
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Berelyokh mass accumulation, Russia .

Comments / picturesThe Byoryolyokh (Russian: Бёрёлёх, Yakut: Бөрөлөөх) is a river in Yakutia in Russia. It flows into the Russko-Ustyinskaya, a left distributary of the Indigirka. By the Byoryolyokh more than 8,000 bones from at least 140 woolly mammoths have been found in a single spot, apparently having been swept there by the current.

The concentration of bones in the Berelyokh mass accumulation was likely result from the simultaneous deaths of a large number of animals within herd-family groups in one or several seasons. The formation of this mass accumulation is argued to be a direct consequence of short but strong climatic warming (Bølling oscillation) and associated unfavorable environmental conditions

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Koehl, Dan (2025). Berelyokh mass accumulation, Elephant Encyclopedia. Available online at https://www.elephant.se/location2.php?location_id=3274. (archived at the Wayback machine)

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