title: Paleoanthropology. Early human presence in the Arctic: Evidence from 45,000-year-old mammoth remains.
abstract: Archaeological evidence for human dispersal through northern Eurasia before 40,000 years ago is rare. In west Siberia, the northernmost find of that age is located at 57°N. Elsewhere, the earliest presence of humans in the Arctic is commonly thought to be circa 35,000 to 30,000 years before the present. A mammoth kill site in the central Siberian Arctic, dated to 45,000 years before the present, expands the populated area to almost 72°N. The advancement of mammoth hunting probably allowed people to survive and spread widely across northernmost Arctic Siberia.
authors.affiliation: Institute for the History of Material Culture, Russian Academy of Sciences, 18 Dvortsovaya Naberezhnaya, St. Petersburg 191186, Russia. pitulkov@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Vladimir V
authors.initials: VV
authors.lastname: Pitulko
authors.affiliation: Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, 1 Universitetskaya Naberezhnaya, St. Petersburg, 199034, Russia.
authors.forename: Alexei N
authors.initials: AN
authors.lastname: Tikhonov
authors.affiliation: Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, 38 Bering Street, St. Petersburg, 199397, Russia.
authors.forename: Elena Y
authors.initials: EY
authors.lastname: Pavlova
authors.affiliation: Geological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, 7 Pyzhevskiy Pereulok, Moscow, 119017, Russia.
authors.forename: Pavel A
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Nikolskiy
authors.affiliation: Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Siberian Branch, 11 Academician Lavrentiev Avenue, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia.
authors.forename: Konstantin E
authors.initials: KE
authors.lastname: Kuper
authors.affiliation: St. Petersburg Pediatric Medical University, 2 Litovskaya Street, St. Petersburg, 194100, Russia.
authors.forename: Roman N
authors.initials: RN
authors.lastname: Polozov
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000883:Anthropology; D001110:Arctic Regions; D001842:Bone and Bones / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000293:injuries; D005060:Europe; D006802:Human Activities; D063426:Human Migration; D006801:Humans; D056665:Mammoths / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000293:injuries*; D010163:Paleontology; D012800:Siberia