Notable: Mammoth hunters in the Arctic 45,000 years ago
Notable paper: Pitulko, V. V., Tikhonov, A. N., Pavlova, E. Y., Nikolskiy, P. A., Kuper, K. E., Polozov, R. N. 2016. Early human presence in the Arctic: Evid...
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Mailbag: Denisovans of the North?
Re: Neandertals of the North.
Neandertals of the North
Ludovic Slimak and colleagues this week argue that Byzovaya, a site in the Russian far north, was produced by Neandertals: “Late Mousterian Persistence near ...
A genome from the mid-Holocene of Greenland
I was really busy meeting awesome people and making new friends in Georgia this week. So, although I got to read and think about the Greenland ancient genome...
Who colonized the European Arctic?
I happened across an article by Pavlov and colleagues (2001) about the Mamontovaya Kurya site in the Russian Arctic. From the abstract (64):