Mammoth Injuries Indicate Humans Occupied Arctic Earlier than Thought (IMAGE)

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Mammoth Injuries Indicate Humans Occupied Arctic Earlier than Thought

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Excavations of the carcass from channel deposits unit. In this photo, Sergey Gorbunov is excavating the mammoth carcass. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Jan. 15, 2016, issue of <i>Science</i>, published by AAAS. The paper, by V.V. Pitulko at Russian Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg, Russia, and colleagues was titled, "Early human presence in the Arctic: Evidence from 45,000-year-old mammoth remains."

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Pitulko <i>et al</i>., Science (2016)

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