Sergey Gorbunov, a volunteer for the excavation team, is excavating the mammoth remains at Sopochnaya Karga locality Photo: Aleksei N. Tikhonov
Archaeological research by Vladimir Pitulko from the History of Material Culture at the Russian Academy of Sciences shows that marks on bones of a mammoth found in the Arctic in 2012 indicate human beings were living and hunting in the Arctic Siberia region much earlier than what was previously assumed.
