![]() ![]() ![]() The technique of aiming a spear at the trunk of an elephant is still used by hunters in some parts of Africa today. According to detailed reconstructions, the prehistoric hunters had wounded the mammoth with spears in the shoulder, stomach, rib cage and trunk areas so severely that it eventually died. This was 10,000 years earlier than hunters were previously believed to have been present in the Arctic. Nevertheless, Russian scientists were amazed in the summer of 2012 when they discovered the cadaver of a young bull mammoth preserved in permafrost on the steep shore of the Siberian Taymyr Peninsula, between the Kara and Laptev Seas, and determined that the animal had been slain by humans around 45,000 years ago. This is not surprising since, even today, because of its location and land connection, the Arctic is much easier for people and animals to reach than Antarctica, which is surrounded by the Southern Ocean. The oldest human traces in the polar regions have been found in the Arctic. ![]()
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