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Researchers discovered the path mammoths followed more than 14,000 years ago through their tusks in North America.
Researchers suspect that the mammoth came from the western part of the Yukon.
This animal then passed through northwestern Canada for hundreds of kilometers before arriving at an ancient human settlement in what is now Alaska.
The mammoth’s journey ended there. It looks like a group of hungry hunter-gatherers killed him.
An international team of researchers from McMaster University, the University of Alaska Fairbanks, and the University of Ottawa produced this story of the mammoth’s epic journey after conducting isotope and DNA analysis of the mammoth’s tusks.
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Analisis mammoth
This complete tusk belonged to a woolly mammoth called “Élmayuujey’eh”, according to IFL Science published last week.
At Swan Point, an archaeological site in Alaska, the creature was unearthed alongside the remains of a baby and juvenile mammoth.
Furthermore, isotope analysis can provide accurate information about animal life such as diet, geographic origin, and migration patterns.
To do this, the concentration of certain stable isotopes in animal tissue taken from the surrounding environment must be observed.
Additionally, the tusks indicate that the adult mammoth was 20 years old when it died about 14,000 years ago.
For at least a century, this was a watershed moment in which the last remaining woolly mammoths coexisted with the first people to inhabit the Alaska region.
Most of the time mammoths lived in the small Yukon region.
However, as he grew older, he migrated in just three years over 1000 kilometers before settling in central Alaska.
Overall, these data clearly show that human hunter-gatherers killed mammoths.
2024-01-23 06:51:19
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