The population dynamics of the Pleistocene woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) has been the subject of intensive palaeogenetic research. Although a large number of mitochondrial genomes across Eurasia have been reconstructed, the available data remains geographically sparse and mostly focused on eastern Eurasia. Thus, population dynamics in other regions have not been extensively investigated. Here, we use a multi-method approach utilising proteomic, stable isotope and genetic techniques to identify and generate twenty woolly mammoth mitochondrial genomes, and associated dietary stable isotopic data, from highly fragmentary Late Pleistocene material from central Europe. We begin to address region-specific questions regarding central European woolly mammoth populations, highlighting parallels with a previous replacement event in eastern Eurasia ten thousand years earlier. A high number of shared derived mutations between woolly mammoth mitochondrial clades are identified, questioning previous phylogenetic analysis and thus emphasizing the need for nuclear DNA studies to explicate the increasingly complex genetic history of the woolly mammoth.

Department of Anthropology Faculty of Philosophy and Arts University of West Bohemia Sedláčkova 15 306 14 Pilsen Czech Republic Centre for Cultural Anthropology Moravian Museum Zelný trh 6 65937 Brno Czech Republic Hrdlicka Museum of Man Faculty of Science CU Viničná 7 128 00 Praha Czech Republic Département de Préhistoire du MNHN Institut de Paléontologie Humaine 1 rue René Panhard 75 013 Paris France

Department of Geosciences University of Tübingen Hölderlinstraße 12 72074 Tübingen Germany Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Paleoenvironment University of Tübingen Hölderlinstraße 12 72074 Tübingen Germany

Department of Human Evolution Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Deutscher Pl 6 04103 Leipzig Germany

Institute for Archaeological Science University of Tübingen Rümelinstraße 23 72070 Tübingen Germany

Institute for Archaeological Science University of Tübingen Rümelinstraße 23 72070 Tübingen Germany Department of Archaeogenetics Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History Kahlaische Straße 10 07745 Jena Germany

Institute for Archaeological Science University of Tübingen Rümelinstraße 23 72070 Tübingen Germany Quantitative Biology Centre Tubingen University of Tübingen Auf der Morgenstelle 10 72076 Tübingen Germany

Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Paleoenvironment University of Tübingen Hölderlinstraße 12 72074 Tübingen Germany Department of Early Prehistory and Quaternary Ecology Schloss Hohentubingen 72070 Tübingen Germany

The Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals Polish Academy of Sciences Sławkowska 17 31 016 Kraków Poland

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