LATE PLEISTOCENE MAN IN NORTHERN ALASKA AND THE MAMMOTH-STEPPE BIOME

摘要: The adaptation of man to the steppe-tundra was evidently a slow and time-consuming process. There is evidence actively hunting elephants during middle Pleistocene, as early 400,000 300,000 years ago, in steppe grassland areas Old World. Man gradually adapted cooler regions that covered vast Central Europe; we have Mammuthus primigenius this environment 80,000 60,000 ago. We know Neanderthal lived hunted warmer far northern Eurasia. By 35,000 ago shared more temperate mammoth's habitat from France Siberia; by 14,000 lived, at least seasonally, throughout World domain. Mammoth not only prey man, who obtained perhaps one specimen per hunter year. More often Rangifer tarandus Equus caballus or E. przewalski were hunted, well Bison, Bos, Saiga, Cervus, Capreolus. kill sites many medium-sized animals, some small, such Lepus Alopex. Birds, fish, plants also consumed. meliorated 40,000 had technical resources cross land bridge New. It reasonable assume if crossed an earlier time he would conditions Beringia did Northern