Paleoanthropology. Early human presence in the Arctic: Evidence from 45,000-year-old mammoth remains

Archaeological evidence for human dispersal through northern Eurasia before 40,000 years ago is rare. In west Siberia, the northernmost find of that age is located at 57°N. Elsewhere, the earliest presence of humans in the Arctic is commonly thought to be circa 35,000 to 30,000 years before the pres...

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Published in:Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) 2016-01, Vol.351 (6270), p.260-263
Main Authors: Pitulko, Vladimir V, Tikhonov, Alexei N, Pavlova, Elena Y, Nikolskiy, Pavel A, Kuper, Konstantin E, Polozov, Roman N
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Animals
Anthropology
Arctic Regions
Bone and Bones - anatomy & histology
Bone and Bones - injuries
Europe
Human Activities
Human Migration
Humans
Mammoths - anatomy & histology
Mammoths - injuries
Paleontology
Siberia
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Summary:Archaeological evidence for human dispersal through northern Eurasia before 40,000 years ago is rare. In west Siberia, the northernmost find of that age is located at 57°N. Elsewhere, the earliest presence of humans in the Arctic is commonly thought to be circa 35,000 to 30,000 years before the present. A mammoth kill site in the central Siberian Arctic, dated to 45,000 years before the present, expands the populated area to almost 72°N. The advancement of mammoth hunting probably allowed people to survive and spread widely across northernmost Arctic Siberia.
ISSN:1095-9203
DOI:10.1126/science.aad0554