Early human presence in the Arctic: Evidence from 45,000-year-old mammoth remains
Earliest human Arctic occupation Paleolithic records of humans in the Eurasian Arctic (above 66°N) are scarce, stretching back to 30,000 to 35,000 years ago at most. Pitulko et al. have found evidence of human occupation 45,000 years ago at 72°N, well within the Siberian Arctic. The evidence is in t...
Published in: | Science |
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Language: | English |
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American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
2016
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Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.aad0554 https://www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1126/science.aad0554 |
Summary: | Earliest human Arctic occupation Paleolithic records of humans in the Eurasian Arctic (above 66°N) are scarce, stretching back to 30,000 to 35,000 years ago at most. Pitulko et al. have found evidence of human occupation 45,000 years ago at 72°N, well within the Siberian Arctic. The evidence is in the form of a frozen mammoth carcass bearing many signs of weapon-inflicted injuries, both pre- and postmortem. The remains of a hunted wolf from a widely separate location of similar age indicate that humans may have spread widely across northern Siberia at least 10 millennia earlier than previously thought. Science , this issue p. 260 |
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