The first inhabitants of Siberia rarely hunted mammoths, as their prey included hares, arctic foxes, wolves, argali, kulans, deer and bison. Evidence of this has been found in the cultural layers of Mount Afontova, especially the bones of very young mammoths and these animals. Archaeologist and candidate of historical sciences Evgeny Artemyev spoke about this.
According to him, on the territory of Krasnoyarsk, the most ancient sites were found on Mount Afontovaya and the Solnechny region. According to carbon analysis, people lived at the first site 32 thousand years ago, and at the second site, scientists discovered a series of sites dating back 23-25 thousand years.
Outwardly, the first Siberians were no different from modern people but were physically more developed.
“We know that they had special methods of communication that allowed them to use very effective forms of tracking and collective hunting. After all, it was a matter of survival. Among other tools, the inhabitants of Mount Afontovaya made many multipurpose tools – tools that could perform completely different functions – from hunting weapons to sewing clothes,” said Artemyev.
At the same time, the first inhabitants of Siberia hunted not only with stone spears but also with bone spears and spear spears – in this case, pieces of stone were inserted into the bones, reports telegram– channel “GradVestnik”.
At the site of Milovice IV in Moravia, Czech archaeologists were able to discover a set 29 stone tools about 30 thousand years old, probably belonging to one person. All the tools were neatly stacked together, as if they had previously been stored in a leather bag that had rotted over time.
