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Published online 4 September 2001 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news010906-11
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The ice man cameth early
Early mammoth hunters braved the Arctic.
Our hardy ancestors survived north of the Arctic Circle as far back as the last ice age, unearthed tools now reveal. The mammoth hunters braved sub-zero temperatures on desolate tundra at least 20,000 years earlier than was thought, the remains suggest, although whether the people were Neanderthals or modern humans is a mystery.
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