Scientists: people living in the Arctic 45,000 years ago – commander

After studying the bones found in the Arctic mammoth, named Jack, a group of scientists, led by Vladimir Pitulko from the Institute of Material Culture came to the conclusion that he was hunted the ancient people. This, in turn, says that these people have lived in the Arctic 45,000 years ago, that is, at least 10 thousand years earlier than expected so far.

Russian scientists have made a discovery of world-class: a group of researchers led by Vladimir Pitulko found that people inhabited the Arctic regions of the Earth 45 thousand. years ago, that is 15 thousand. years earlier than acknowledged by science before.

Details I published an article about it on January 15, the journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Science – one of the most prestigious scientific publications in the world. A member of the St. Petersburg Institute of Material Culture Pitulko spent a great three-year work on the study of the remains of a mammoth Eugene, found in 2012 at Cape Sopochnaya Hag at the mouth of the Yenisei.

According to the scientist, the skeletal remains of the animal – on the shoulder blade, ribs and zygomatic bone – as well as the well-preserved soft tissues were found traces of the “direct impact of human hands.” Radiocarbon analysis of tissues showed that the age of discovery is about 45 thousand. Years. In addition, Russian experts studied the bones of wolf found in the river Yana, the same age as a mammoth. Experts found on the skeleton of the predator traces of blows handmade tools.

Along with the main opening, a group led by Pitulko found and a second new fact of life of people in the North – human settlements were located on the territories of 72 degrees north latitude, not limited to the 55th degree, as previously thought.

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

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