2024-01-17 21:00:00
The movements of large mammals would have influenced those of our ancestors.
Even 14,000 years ago America and Eurasia were connected by land and woolly mammoths reigned on both continents. They disappeared from the American continent and Western Europe at the end of the last ice age, around 12,000 years ago, but survived in North Asia until another 4,000 years ago. A team from the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) analyzed the chemical composition of a tusk discovered in 2009 in Alaska. His results published in the journal Science Advances allow us to know a little more about the behavior of this giant mammal, but also about the relationship which united it to A wise man.
During this period, human groups settled in the north of the American continent. Originally from Asia, they arrived via Beringia, at the location of the current Bering Strait. In these periglacial regions, the fauna was relatively comparable on the two continents. Men were therefore used to…
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