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2016-01-17 06:02 | Posted in Science and Technology

The Russian scientists have unearthed unusual mammoth remains, analyzing that paleontologists have found that the first people came to the Arctic for 10 thousand years earlier than previously thought, and that they hunted the giant ice age as well as modern Africans are killing elephants. His scientific work researchers published in the journal Science, RIA Nvosti.

Paleontologists from Saint Petersburg found through the following copies and knives on the bones of a mammoth Eugene that people entered the Arctic about 45 thousand years back to 10 thousand years earlier than the generally accepted estimates.

The carcass of an ancient animal was found next to the meteorological station Sopochnaya Hag.

3 years ago Alexei Tikhonov of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg and his colleagues have carried out excavations in the Arctic Circle. Where scientists were able to detect the partially preserved mammoth carcass relatively young age of 15 years, which scientists named “Jack.” After delivering the carcass to St. Petersburg and began to study it, they expect the unexpected discovery – it turned out that Eugene killed ancient hunters lived in Siberia, in the distant past. This is indicated by many wounds on his body, cuts on his bones and traces of spears and other tools.

The scientists were surprised even more when they measured the age of the Gene by calculating the proportion of radioactive carbon-14 in its tissues. It turned out that the mammoth lived about 44,500 years ago, which is extremely unexpected date – until today anthropologists and paleontologists believe that people have got into the Arctic about 30-35 thousand years ago, much later than he lived Zhenya.

Thus, Tikhonov and his colleagues have shown, that mankind has penetrated into the territory of the Arctic for at least 10,000 years earlier than we thought before. The reason for this, according to Russian scientists, was that for a period of 45-40 thousand years ago, the peak flowering of mammoths, whose abundance could attract the first inhabitants of the Arctic, and to get them to move in the floodplain of the Yenisei, the Lena and other Siberian rivers.

In favor of this “unfinished” mascara – ancient Siberians did not eat all of the mammoth, and cut only the most delicious part, separated tusks and left the remaining pieces of the carcass at the mercy of the elements. This suggests that the problems with the food they had not experienced in a while.

In addition to specifying the date of settlement in Siberia, scientists were able to reveal another interesting mystery – they figured out how ancient people hunted mammoths. One of the wounds on the skull Eugene indicates that Stone Age hunters were trying to kill the ancient giants hopefuls spear into the base of their trunks. A successful hit will break a lot of the arteries and the mammoth quickly die as a result of loss of blood. A similar technique is used today hunting Africans, hunting elephants with spears.