Find the remains of a mammoth from 21,000 years ago in Russia

Researchers from the Mamut Wildlife Studies Department of the Yakutia Academy of Sciences found this summer on Kotelni Island, in the far north of Russia, the fossil remains of a mammoth that lived 21,000 years ago and with a great probability was killed by humans. They concluded this way by studying a mark found on a scapula of the animal. Apparently, it was made by the tip of a spear. A subsequent examination confirmed that assumption. "We carried out a criminological analysis in Moscow [...] and determined that there was no iron there, that is, all these traces were left by a stone weapon," the paleontologist Valeri Plotnikov told the Yakutia 24 agency, who participated in the study.

• 2019-11-21T15:12:01+00:00
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