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Early Human Presence in the Arctic: Evidence from 45,000-year-old Mammoth Remains Full article

Journal

Science
ISSN: 0036-8075 , E-ISSN: 1095-9203

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Year: 2016, Volume: 351, Number: 6270, Pages: 260-263 Pages count : 4 DOI: 10.1126/science.aad0554

Tags

Animals; Anthropology; Arctic Regions; Bone and Bones; Europe; Human Activities; Human Migration; Humans; Mammoths; Paleontology; Siberia

Authors

Pitulko Vladimir V. ¹ , Tikhonov Alexei N. ² , Pavlova Elena Y. ³ , Nikolskiy Pavel A. ⁴ , Kuper Konstantin E. ⁵ , Polozov Roman N. ⁶

Affiliations

1	Institute for the History of Material Culture, Russian Academy of Sciences, 18 Dvortsovaya Naberezhnaya, St. Petersburg 191186, Russia
2	Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, 1 Universitetskaya Naberezhnaya, St. Petersburg, 199034, Russia
3	Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, 38 Bering Street, St. Petersburg, 199397, Russia
4	Geological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, 7 Pyzhevskiy Pereulok, Moscow, 119017, Russia
5	Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Siberian Branch, 11 Academician Lavrentiev Avenue, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia
6	St. Petersburg Pediatric Medical University, 2 Litovskaya Street, St. Petersburg, 194100, Russia

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.

Pitulko V.V. , Tikhonov A.N. , Pavlova E.Y. , Nikolskiy P.A. , Kuper K.E. , Polozov R.N.
Early Human Presence in the Arctic: Evidence from 45,000-year-old Mammoth Remains
Science. 2016. V.351. N6270. P.260-263. DOI: 10.1126/science.aad0554 WOS Scopus РИНЦ AN OpenAlex

Published online:	Jan 14, 2016
Published print:	Jan 15, 2016

Web of science:	WOS:000368098600037
Scopus:	2-s2.0-84954408219
Elibrary:	27037237
Chemical Abstracts:	2016:58402
OpenAlex:	W2237077216

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