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

• Autores: V. M. Pitulko, Alexei N. Tikhonov, Elena Y. Pavlova
• Localización: Science, ISSN 0036-8075, Vol. 351, Nº 6270, 2016, págs. 260-263
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • 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.