2004/01/02 by Vladimir V. Pitulko, P. A. Nikolsky, Evgeny Girya +6 · 4 citations
Social Sciences · Earth and Planetary Sciences · Health Professions · #Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology #Archaeology and ancient environmental studies #Indigenous Studies and Ecology
paper · doi:10.1126/science.1085219
openalex publication_date 2004/01/02 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/31
A newly discovered Paleolithic site on the Yana River, Siberia, at 71 degrees 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.