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

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Publication Type: Journal Article

Authors: Pitulko, Vladimir V; Tikhonov, Alexei N; Pavlova, Elena Y; Nikolskiy, Pavel A; Kuper, Konstantin E; Polozov, Roman N

Year of Publication: 2016

Journal: Science

Volume: 351

Issue: 6270

Pagination: 260-3

Date Published: 2016 Jan 15

Publication Language: eng

ISSN: 1095-9203

Keywords: Animals, Anthropology, Arctic Regions, Bone and Bones, Europe, Human Activities, Human Migration, Humans, Mammoths, Paleontology, Siberia

Abstract:

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.

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URL: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26816376

DOI: 10.1126/science.aad0554

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