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The Yana RHS site: humans in the Arctic before the last glacial maximum
- Source :
- Science (New York, N.Y.). 303(5654)
- Publication Year :
- 2004
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Abstract
- A newly discovered Paleolithic site on the Yana River, Siberia, at 71°N, lies well above the Arctic circle and dates to 27,000 radiocarbon years before present, during glacial times. This age is twice that of other known human occupations in any Arctic region. Artifacts at the site include a rare rhinoceros foreshaft, other mammoth foreshafts, and a wide variety of tools and flakes. This site shows that people adapted to this harsh, high-latitude, Late Pleistocene environment much earlier than previously thought.
- Subjects :
- Geologic Sediments
Pleistocene
Culture
Bone and Bones
law.invention
Time
Paleontology
law
Animals
Humans
Glacial period
Radiocarbon dating
Mammoth
Paleodontology
Multidisciplinary
biology
Arctic Regions
Last Glacial Maximum
Before Present
Emigration and Immigration
Plants
biology.organism_classification
Cold Climate
Archaeology
Siberia
Geography
Arctic
Anthropology
Upper Paleolithic
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 10959203
- Volume :
- 303
- Issue :
- 5654
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Science (New York, N.Y.)
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....1b26eb88b9f3df01bda7b64c8be1d97d