Yana Rhinoceros Horn Site
upper Palaeolithic site in northeastern Siberia
The Yana Rhinoceros Horn Site is an excavation in Siberia. It has ancient human remains and artifacts. These remains are 31,000 years old. Human teeth from the site have been used to analyze DNA. The results show that the people were Homo sapiens . These people were different from already known people. The archaeologists have named them Ancient North Siberians. They are more like modern Europeans than like modern Asians.
Siberia was very cold when these people lived. They hunted large animals like woolly mammoths, woolly rhinoceroses, and bison.[1][2]
References
change- ↑ University of Cambridge (June 5, 2019). "DNA from 31,000-year-old milk teeth leads to discovery of new group of ancient Siberians". Archived from the original on June 7, 2019. Retrieved July 17, 2019.
- ↑ Willerslev, Eske; Excoffier, Laurent; Meltzer, David J.; Nielsen, Rasmus; Durbin, Richard; Lahr, Marta Mirazon; Sajantila, Antti; Wessman, Anna; Kristiansen, Kristian (June 2019). "The population history of northeastern Siberia since the Pleistocene". Nature. 570 (7760): 182–188. Bibcode:2019Natur.570..182S. doi:10.1038/s41586-019-1279-z. ISSN 1476-4687. PMID 31168093. S2CID 174809069.