One of the most contentious debates in all of archeology is when and how the Americas were first settled. For a while, it was claimed that the first people in the Americas were the “Clovis”. They were a group of big-game hunters with distinctive hunting tools that allegedly bypassed formidable glaciers through an inland ice-free […]
If you don’t know, the very last population of woolly mammoths in the world survived until only about 4,000 years ago, the time the Egyptian pyramids were being built, on a small island called Wrangel island in northeast Siberia. These mammoths survived on this remote tundra island, today home to a large seasonal population of
If you’re well-versed in Pleistocene ecology, you’ve almost certainly heard about the steppe-tundra, also known as the mammoth steppe. During the Last Glacial Period, this biome covered vast parts of three continents: Europe, Asia, and North America. The name “steppe-tundra” refers to the fact that it contained a unique mixture of steppe and tundra species,
