{"id":20773,"date":"2016-01-14T17:01:41","date_gmt":"2016-01-15T01:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/a-mysterious-mammoth-carcass-could-change-human-history"},"modified":"2017-06-04T11:07:42","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T18:07:42","slug":"a-mysterious-mammoth-carcass-could-change-human-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/a-mysterious-mammoth-carcass-could-change-human-history","title":{"rendered":"A Mysterious Mammoth Carcass Could Change Human History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-mysterious-mammoth-carcass-could-change-human-history.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The carcass was remarkably well preserved, but something was clearly wrong. A rounded hole through the interior jugal. Deep incisions along the ribs. Dents in the left scapula. A broken mandible.<\/p>\n<p>This 45,000 year-old mammoth\u2019s life ended violently at the hands of hunters. That wouldn\u2019t be surprising\u2014it\u2019s well known that Pleistocene humans were expert mammoth killers\u2014but for the location. It was excavated from a permafrost embankment at Yenisei bay, a remote spot in central Siberia where a massive river empties into the Arctic Ocean.<\/p>\n<p>That makes this brutalized mammoth the oldest evidence for human expansion into the high Arctic by a wide margin. Its discovery, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/lookup\/doi\/10.1126\/science.aad0554\" target=\"_blank\">published today<\/a> in <em>Science<\/em>, might push back the timeline for when humans entered the northernmost reaches of the world\u2014including the first entries into North America.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/a-mysterious-mammoth-carcass-could-change-human-history-1752685610\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The carcass was remarkably well preserved, but something was clearly wrong. A rounded hole through the interior jugal. Deep incisions along the ribs. Dents in the left scapula. A broken mandible. This 45,000 year-old mammoth\u2019s life ended violently at the hands of hunters. That wouldn\u2019t be surprising\u2014it\u2019s well known that Pleistocene humans were expert mammoth [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20773"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63249,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20773\/revisions\/63249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}