Friday 15 January 2016

What can a 45,000-year-old mammoth carcass tell us about human history?

What can a 45,000-year-old mammoth carcass tell us about human history?

Living above the Arctic circle provides a suite of challenges for humans, particularly during the last Ice Age. They would have struggled to keep warm and gather the necessary resources to survive the severe landscape, or so we thought. New research suggests anatomically modern humans may have lived remarkably far North in central Siberia as early as 45,000 years ago, a feat that would mean our ancestors were more technologically advanced than we previously believed.

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