The skeleton of a mammoth was discovered by a 12-year-old boy around 1,250 miles south of the North Pole in Siberia. The research has revealed that the mammoth is somewhere around 45,000 years old. The great hump on the top of the mammoth is over seven feet high, while multiple cuts and holes were found on its bones that appeared to have been made by spear points or some other weapons of similar kind.

The butchered-mammoth has led to the revision of the estimated time when humans would have arrived at the Arctic Circle. The first estimate was of approximately 12,000 years, before it was raised to 35,000 years in 2004. The new discovery has further increased the estimated arrival time to 45,000 years. The mammoth had lot of injuries of being battered and shot with projectile points by humans. Radiocarbon dating technique was used to determine the time of the mammoth’s existence. It is likely that humans would have travelled further north due to the mammoths.

Furthermore, it is being anticipated that ancient humans dwelled close to 70 degrees north of the equator, parallel to the Alaskan north coast. Wolf bones were also excavated. Further research has revealed that Homo sapiens traveled out of Africa towards the Siberia around 45,000 years back, but the evidence found only suggests that humans reached only as high as 55 degrees north.

The discovered mammoth’s tusk had been cut. Humans would have used this long, sharp-edged tusk for cutting purposes. The innovative method is likely to have been the demand of the nature for the necessity of survival. “It turns out that settlement of the Arctic was nothing special. It came along with everything else, as modern humans spread out of Africa into an amazingly wide variety of habitats and climate zones over the course of a few thousand years,” said John Hoffecker of Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research at the University of Colorado.