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

2016; American Association for the Advancement of Science; Volume: 351; Issue: 6270 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1126/science.aad0554

1095-9203

Vladimir V. Pitulko, Alexei Tikhonov, Elena Y. Pavlova, Pavel A. Nikolskiy, К. Э. Купер, Roman N. Polozov,

Indigenous Studies and Ecology

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.