14,000-Year-Old Tusk Shows Mammoth’s Path to an Ice Age Campsite
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....