Posted on 11/13/2007 2:48:56 PM PST by blam
Mammoth hunters' camp site found in Russia's Far East
13:02 | 12/ 11/ 2007
KHABAROVSK, November 12 (RIA Novosti) - Archaeologists have found a 15,000 year-old hunters' camp site from the Paleolithic era near Lake Evoron in Russia's Far East, a source in the Khabarovsk archaeology museum said on Monday.
"The site dates back to the end of the Ice Age, a period which is poorly studied" Andrei Malyavin, chief of the museum's archaeology department said. "That is why any new site from this period is a discovery in itself."
The site, found during a 2007 archaeological expedition to Lake Evoron, is the largest of four Stone Age sites, discovered near the Amur River so far, and was most likely established by mammoth hunters.
"We came to this conclusion after studying flint pikes, arrowheads and a stone scraper," Malyavin said, adding that a comprehensive archaeological excavation could take a couple of years.
In 2006, archaeologists discovered an Iron Age burial mound around 2,500 years old containing a unique fragment from an iron dagger, which had been preserved in the Amur Region's acidic soil.
Theres a mammoth season in Siberia? Whats a mammoth tag go for I wonder?
blam.....could you add me to the GGG ping list? Thanks....
“The matrix must not have known what mammoth tastes like.”
If chicken taste is the default setting, what does the Red or Blue pill taste like?
Okay. SunkenCicv manages the GGG ping list...he's been pinged.
Well, I’m confused. Was it a really large camp, were they really large hunters, or were they hunting mammoths? ;-)
“”The site dates back to the end of the Ice Age, a period which is poorly studied” “
That pesky global warming strikes again.
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Thanks Blam. Tusk another cool discovery. |
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Did I ever mention that I have a custom-made knife with a handle of mammoth ivory? It’s way cool. Some bleeding heart saw it and said, “But isn’t that illegal? Mammoths are endangered.” I just rolled my eyes.
At some point, the hunters were incented to try to cross a risky land bridge, in search of new stocks/hunting grounds.
They found themselves in Alaska, where the mammoths were abundant, and expansion/settlement would have followed quickly, as well as the extermination of the mammoths in North America.
I think I’d need a few shots of Jim Beam before attempting to stick a spear into a mammoth myself...
It’s true. Mammoths are *so endangered* that they could *go extinct* any second now, and th- just a second, the phone’s ringing... hello? They have? Oh, that’s bad news...
Would a mammoth dna cell be a mammoth deal?
I hope they don’t faux-clone mammoths. For one thing, they’d be a bit messy around the house.
Iron?
Hmmmmmmmmmmnnnnn. Wonder if they found a meteorite remnant?
Could you slow-clone a small mammoth instead?
If a fake mammoth were born frozen from chipped ice, would it be a faux-slow-snow-cone-clone?
That was great! Mind if I copy that? I should note that it will be from memory, so it won’t be an exact copy... ;’)
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