Archaeologists have explained why the first inhabitants of Siberia rarely hunted mammoths

The ancient inhabitants of the territory of modern Krasnoyarsk preferred to hunt small animals rather than mammoths. This conclusion was reached by archaeologists studying the sites of ancient people on Afontovaya Mountain and in the Solnechny area.

Candidate of Historical Sciences Evgeny Artemyev explained that dressing mammoth skin required enormous effort. Therefore, people sewed clothes mainly from the skins of hares, arctic foxes, deer and other small animals.

In cultural layers 23-32 thousand years old, bones of young mammoths and animals the size of a modern cow predominate. At the same time, ancient hunters developed special tools for preserving skins – blunt tips made from mammoth ivory.

Ancient Siberians used a variety of tools: universal multi-tools, spears with stone tips, and even throwing stones. According to the scientist, they were physically superior to modern people and possessed unique skills – from navigation by the stars to complex methods of collective hunting.