Mammoth Hunting Puts Humans in the Arctic 45,000 Years Ago

More than 40,000 years ago, in the Arctic reaches of what’s now Russia, the population of mammoths was at a peak. This was before the last glacial maximum–the last era when ice sheets reached down to cover extensive parts of Asia, Europe and North America–and even in the far north, mammoths would have had large expanses of open landscape in which to roam.
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