http://siberiantimes.com/science/casestudy/news/worlds-northernmost-palaeolithic-settlement-found-on-kotelny-island-in-the-arctic/
19 August 2021
Experts have confirmed that ancient hunters resided on Kotelny, off the
coast of
Yakutia, at 75°20′N 141°00′E, a remarkkable 990 kilometres (615 miles) north of
the Arctic Circle.
Their butchering tools have been found alongside multiple bones of extinct woolly mammoths.
Scientists have restored 70% of the skeleton of one Palaeolithic mammoth on which these hardy people were feasting.
‘This is a unique event for the Arctic and world archeology,’ said Alexander
Kandyba, senior researcher at the Stone Age Archaeology Department of the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, part of the Siberian Branch of Russian
Academy of Sciences.
‘The mammoth was butchered by people. A large number of processed bones
and tusk fragments were found. There are linear cuts, traces of chopping
blows
on the vertebra. People used a wide range of tools for cutting.
'There is not a single bone that would be without traces of human impact.’
He emphasised: ‘We are talking about the northernmost human site in the Palaeolithic era.’
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