The massive proboscidean was 20 when she died, according to the teams research,publishedtoday in Science Advances.
In Alaska, woolly mammoths (Mammathus primigenius) overlapped with human populations for at least a millennium.
Audrey Rowe, a PhD student at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, led the study.
A mammoth tusk fragment.Photo:Wikimedia Commons
Elmayuujeyeh was found alongside contemporaneous mammoth remains belonging to other individuals.
The remains were found at the Swan Point archaeological site in Alaskas interior.
Researchers think the site was a seasonal workshop for Ice Age humans in the area.
Despite this, the researchers say there is no explicit evidence that the animal was killed by the humans.
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Turns out, they were the remains of three mammoths from the Stone Age.
