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

Author:

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

Affiliation:

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.

Abstract

Earliest human Arctic occupation Paleolithic records of humans in the Eurasian Arctic (above 66°N) are scarce, stretching back to 30,000 to 35,000 years ago at most. Pitulko et al. have found evidence of human occupation 45,000 years ago at 72°N, well within the Siberian Arctic. The evidence is in the form of a frozen mammoth carcass bearing many signs of weapon-inflicted injuries, both pre- and postmortem. The remains of a hunted wolf from a widely separate location of similar age indicate that humans may have spread widely across northern Siberia at least 10 millennia earlier than previously thought. Science , this issue p. 260

Funder

Russian Foundation of Basic Research

Rock Foundation

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

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