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Ancient Animals Woolly Mammoths. IFL Science
SIBERIA – Movement mammoth The 14,000-year-old furry has been linked to the earliest human hunters on Earth.
A study of mammoths that died 14,000 years ago shows how some of the first Americans set up hunting camps along 1,000 km long grazing routes.
The new findings suggest that the Americas may have been settled by Russian hunters who tracked mammoths across the Bering Strait to Alaska.
Data collected by a group of scientists on the female mammoth, nicknamed Elma, suggests that Alaska’s early inhabitants likely built their settlements to overlap with areas where mammoths congregated.
As reported by Miror, this means the species and early hunter-gatherers would have shared habitat in Alaska.
Humans are believed to have been drawn to the region and reached it via the Bering Land Bridge from Russia, due to the species’ predictable and long-term presence.
A team from the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) established this connection using analysis to study Elma’s life.
One of the mammoth’s tusks was discovered at the Swan Point archaeological site in the state, while further samples revealed details about the 1,000 km journey he undertook across Alaska and northwestern Canada during his lifetime.
This research provides new insights into the relationship between early humans and large animals of the past. This suggests that humans not only hunted mammoths for food, but also followed their movements to find other resources such as water and shelter.
The findings also have important implications for understanding how climate change may affect animal and human populations in the future.
Because mammoths became extinct due to climate change in the past, studying their relationship with humans can help us predict how current climate change may affect interactions between humans and wildlife.
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