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Submitted by AlexAssa on Sunday, 08 November 2015  Page Views: 6934

Multi-periodSite Name: Yana RHS Alternative Name: Yana Rhinoceros Horn Site
Country: Russia Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Kazachye
Latitude: 70.720168N  Longitude: 135.385254E
Condition:
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4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
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-1Completely destroyed
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3 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
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Yana RHS
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Yana, Russia, the oldest settlement in the Arctic Circle of the late Palaeolithic people.

Ancient settlement on River Yana - dated to 27,000~28,000 BC

The existence of this settlement contradicts the official theory of glaciation, and the history of ancient Russia..
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Re: Evidence from the Yana Palaeolithic site, yields clues to the riddle of mammoth h by Andy B on Wednesday, 02 December 2015
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Site name (and photos) need to be edited to be Yana (RHS) - I've asked what RHS is short for.
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    Re: Evidence from the Yana Palaeolithic site, yields clues to the riddle of mammoth h by davidmorgan on Wednesday, 02 December 2015
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    Rhinoceros Horn Site
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      Re: Evidence from the Yana Palaeolithic site, yields clues to the riddle of mammoth h by Andy B on Wednesday, 02 December 2015
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      Thanks David, that's not a TLA you come across every day! Round these parts it stands for Royal Horticultural Society (Wisley Gardens) - I'm just imagining them getting mixed up :)
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The Yana RHS archaeological site by Andy B on Sunday, 08 November 2015
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The Yana RHS archaeological site is located near the mouth of the Yana River in Siberia, 500 km north of the Arctic Circle. The site was investigated in 2001 and 2003 by archaeologist Vladimir Pitulko.

Radiocarbon dating has revealed a surprisingly early date of 27,000 years BP for human occupation at the site. Prior to the discovery of Yana, the earliest known occupation of this Arctic region was the Berelekh site, dated to about 13,000 – 14,000 years BP.

Artifacts found at the Yana RHS site include tools made of rhinoceros horn and mammoth tusk, and hundreds of stone artifacts including choppers, scrapers and other biface tools. No evidence of a blade technology has been found.

Yana RHS is an important site because it demonstrates that humans had adapted to a harsh Arctic environment much earlier than was previously thought. In addition, the site’s location near the Bering Land Bridge and its early occupation date may ultimately offer clues to help resolve some of the questions about the first peopling of the Americas.

Further Reading:
Pitulko, V., P. A. Nikolsky, E. Y. Girya, A. E. Basilyan, V. E. Tumskoy, S. A. Koulakov, S. N. Astakhov, E. Y. Pavlova and M. A. Anisimov
2004 The Yana RHS Site: Humans in the Arctic before the Last Glacial Maximum. Science 303:52 – 56.

Source:
http://www.sfu.museum/journey/an-en/postsecondaire-postsecondary/yana
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Re: Evidence from the Yana Palaeolithic site, yields clues to the riddle of mammoth h by Andy B on Sunday, 08 November 2015
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See also (in Russian)
http://www.nat-geo.ru/paleontology/37958-okhota-na-mamontov/#full
http://www.organizmica.org/archive/605/ysss.shtml

with thanks to AlexAssa for the links
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Of Mammoths and Men by Andy B on Sunday, 08 November 2015
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Ancient hunters killed woolly mammoths for their meat. Today in Russia’s Arctic the search is on for their valuable tusks.

One last chance. That’s all the Siberian hunter wants. For five months Karl Gorokhov has tracked his ancient prey across a desolate island in the East Siberian Sea, slogging 18 hours a day over the icy tundra. He is cold and exhausted, with a hunger so primal that he has been reduced to eating seagulls. Even the two polar bears that attacked his camp were famished; their stomachs, slit open after they were shot dead, were empty. Gorokhov, a 46-year-old with wind-chapped cheeks and a scraggly, reddish beard, heads out every day past the nine graves near his camp—the final resting places, he presumes, for unlucky souls who came to the island to escape the Soviet gulag.

Gorokhov is running out of time. Late summer blizzards are howling across Kotelnyy Island, 600 miles north of the Arctic Circle, and the deep freeze of another northern winter looms. His fingers and palms start to itch. It’s “a lucky sign,” Gorokhov said later. The itching usually strikes when he’s on the verge of finding what he’s looking for: the ivory tusks of a mammoth.

Read more at
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2013/04/125-mammoth-tusks/larmer-text
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Evidence from the Yana Palaeolithic site, yields clues to the riddle of mammoth hunti by Andy B on Sunday, 08 November 2015
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Evidence from the Yana Palaeolithic site, Arctic Siberia, yields clues to the riddle of mammoth hunting.

Evidence of mammoth hunting in the Siberian Arctic 29 000–27 000 14C years BP discovered.
Humans hunted mammoths sporadically, when ivory was needed for making tools.
Low hunting pressure would not be fatal to a sustainable mammoth population.

It has become commonplace to talk about humans hunting mammoths, and overhunting is thought to have been one of the causes of the mammoth extinction. However, definite evidence of mammoth kills by humans remains surprisingly scarce. Here we show convincing evidence of mammoth hunting in the Siberian Arctic between 29 000 and 27 000 14C years BP. Our data set, from the Yana Upper Palaeolithic site (Siberian Arctic), includes the following: fragments of lithic points and ivory shaft embedded in two mammoth scapulae; two identical holes made by projectiles in a mammoth scapula and a pelvic bone; mammoth tongue bones found in the cultural layer far away from the main mammoth bone accumulation, indicating the consumption of fresh mammoth meat; and a narrow mammoth bone size distribution, implying hunting selection based on animal size. The data suggest that Palaeolithic Yana humans hunted mammoths sporadically, presumably when ivory was needed for making tools. Such non-intensive hunting practiced by humans over millennia would not be fatal to a sustainable mammoth population.

Journal of Archaeological Science, Volume 40, Issue 12, December 2013, Pages 4189–4197
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305440313001957
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