article_snippet: Aton Rezvy, head of palaeontology at the Khanty-Mansiysk Museum of Nature and Man, said Aton Rezvy, head of palaeontology at the Khanty-Mansiysk Museum of Nature and Man believes the mammoth is at least 10,000 years old.
article_snippet: Since the 1700s scientists have debated what caused the demise of mammoths.
article_snippet: All but a few isolated island populations disappeared between 20,000 and 10,000 years ago.
article_snippet: One popular theory, bolstered by this study, is that Ice Age people hunted most of the mammoths out of existence.
article_snippet: However, some experts argue that global warming helped make the giant creatures extinct between 20,000 and 25,000 years ago.
article_snippet: Other researchers argue that an impact of extraterritorial objects in North America 13,000 years ago, led to rapid climate change, eventually wiping out the mammoths.
article_snippet: Today, it's thought that a combination of factors led to extinction.
article_snippet: a combination of factors led to extinction said they hoped to conduct further analysis of the bones to learn more about the mammoth.
article_snippet: a combination of factors led to extinction told the Siberian Times: 'they can send the find to determine the radiocarbon date. '
article_snippet: Genetic analysis will help to determine which population this mammoth was from - European or North American.'
article_snippet: Many believe the original Siberian population of mammoths disappeared around 40,000 years ago, with North American mammoths dominating until around 4,500 years ago.
article_snippet: The exact reason for North American mammoths dominating until around 4,500 years ago extinction is still debated with many blaming changes to the climate as causing North American mammoths dominating until around 4,500 years ago demise.
article_snippet: Others have pointed to evidence that humans and neanderthals hunted the giant creatures along with other ice age megafauna and may have pushed Others to the brink of extinction.
article_snippet: Palaeontologists who examined the mammoth's remains (shown above) estimate Palaeontologists who examined the mammoth's remains (shown above) died 10,000 years ago .
article_snippet: A recent study has suggested that human hunting caused a massive drop in mammoth populations in western Europe around 30,000 years ago.
article_snippet: Just a few isolated populations of mammoth are though to have clung on.
article_snippet: Woolly mammoths, like the one shown in the artists impression above, lived from about 200,000 years ago until around 4,500 years ago when the last isolated populations are thought to have  died out completely .