Siberia's 'mammoth graveyard' reveals 800-year human interactions with woolly beasts

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Jun 10, 2024, 10:20 am102 pts
Woolly mammoths are evocative of a bygone era, when Earth was gripped within an Ice Age. Current knowledge places early mammoth ancestors in the Pliocene (2.58–5.33 million years ago, Ma) before their populations expanded in the Pleistocene (2.58 Ma–11,700 years ago, kyr). However, as climate changed, their…

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