The journal Science published an article by scientists, which prove that people lived in the Arctic 45,000 years ago. This conclusion was made after on the coast of the Kara Sea have found the remains of a mammoth age 45 thousand years. It turned out that he had been killed by hunters.
It was previously thought that the people were in the Arctic 15,000 years ago. In the summer of 2012 at the Cape Sopochnaya Crone, on the banks of the Yenisei Gulf of the Kara Sea, the 11-year-old Nenets boy found mammoth bone. Radiocarbon dating conducted on the collagen of the tibia bone, muscle and wool mammoth points to the time of death – about 44,600 years ago.
This figure confirmed the stratigraphy and dating of peat layers over the remains of Eugene, including small willow twig, preserved in its more than 40 thousand years. So already at that time in this Arctic – a place of death mammoth is at 71 ° north latitude – were men.
«This is a very serious expands notions of time people stay in the Arctic – it increased by 15 thousand. Years . In addition, earlier it was believed that the presence of man in this area was limited to the 55th degree of north latitude, and now we see that he lived on the 72-th degree, I mean Kargu mound. It is clear that in this way we can see a huge expansion of human settlement, “- said Vladimir Pitulko – Candidate of Historical Sciences, Senior Researcher of the Paleolithic IHMC.
Along with the main opening, a group led by Pitulko found and the second new fact of life of people in the North – human settlements were located on the territories of 72 degrees north latitude, is not limited to the 55th degree, as previously thought.
Thus, Tikhonov and his colleagues have shown that mankind has entered 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.
Mammoth Jack (official name – Sopkarginsky mammoth) – the adult mammoth fossil. Discovered near Cape Sopochnaya Karga Taimyr Dolgan-Nenets region of Krasnoyarsk region of Russia. Cape Coordinates: 71 ° 52’20 “with. w. 82 ° 42’42 “in. d. (G) (O) Coordinates: 71 ° 52’20 “with. w. 82 ° 42’42 “in. d. (G) (O)
The carcass of a mammoth who died about 30 thousand years ago, at the end of August 2012 found on Taimyr 11-year-old Yevgeny Salinder. On the discovery at Cape Sopochnaya Karga boy told his parents, and they said polar explorers weather station, located three kilometers from the findings. October 2, 2012 the carcass of a mammoth was taken to Dudinka.
In the process, the organizers of the expedition realized that they were dealing with a unique instance: it is not just the skeleton, and the carcass of a mammoth weighing half a ton, with preserved fragments of skin, meat, fat and even some bodies. It turned out that no large hump mammoth processes of the thoracic vertebrae as previously thought in the backs of powerful mammoth accumulated fat reserves for the winter. [2] Apparently Mammoth Jack died in the summer, as the hump he was still not big enough and there was a winter undercoat. At the time of death of the mammoth’s wife was 15-16 years old.
Last adult mammoth carcass was found by the expedition O. Hertz (Yakutia.) Russian. and EV Dinah Pfizenmaier in 1901 on the river Berezovka near Srednekolymsk.
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