Mamontova Kurya is a Paleolithic site in the Russian Arctic. Mammoth Kurya or Mamontova Kurya (after the name of the village) is the oldest modern-type human site in the European Arctic, dating back to 37.5 thousand years.
The site is located at 67 degrees north latitude, in the Arctic Circle (beyond the Arctic Circle), on the banks of the Usa River (a tributary of the Pechora). To the north are only the Yanskaya parking lot and the Berelekh parking lot - approx. 71 ° N sh.). Administratively located on the territory of the urban district "Vorkuta" of the Komi Republic.
A joint Russian-Norwegian archaeological expedition has been working at the parking lot for several years. During excavations at Mamontovaya Kurye, more than a hundred bones of various animals were found - horses, reindeer, wolves. An arrowhead was found stuck in one of the bones, and a clear pattern was found on the mammoth's tusk in the form of deep notches, made obliquely by two pointed stone tools of different breeds. The age of the tusk, according to radiocarbon research, is about 40 thousand years (38-34 thousand years). No human remains were found in the parking lot.
In recent years, archaeological excavations have begun to deliver very interesting data about the past of mankind - either the remains of a "Homo sapiens" 200,000 years old have been found, or objects that are several million years old have been found. Moreover, many finds clearly confirm their attitude to a civilization that is definitely developed in many aspects. And the most interesting of this happens in Russia (you can also take into account the temporarily lost of its ancestral territories). The data obtained by archaeologists in recent years, in principle, do not agree with that picture of the settlement and origin of modern man.
Such contradictory evidence can be attributed to the ancient site of Mamontov Kurya.
Located beyond the Arctic Circle, the Mammoth Kurya completely contradicts today's ideas of official science, according to which, 15 thousand years ago, the north of Eurasia, up to the Carpathians and the Dnieper region, was covered with glacier, and naturally, a person could not live here in principle.
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Meanwhile, life beyond the Arctic Circle in the last ice and post-glacial period required considerable adaptive abilities and, no doubt, developed social organization and other factors.
The most important question that arises after the opening of the sites is who could live here if there was an era of glaciation at that time? Previously it was believed that humans reached these lands 13,000 to 14,000 years ago.
