Mamontovaya Kurya
Encyclopedia
Mamontovaya Kurya is a Palaeolithic site on the Usa River
, Komi Republic
, Russia
. The site includes stone artifacts, animal bones and a mammoth
tusk with human-made marks. Dated to 40,000 years before present, this is the oldest documented evidence of humans at this latitude.
Usa River (Komi Republic)
Usa is a river in the northeast corner of European Russia which drains the Polar Urals southwest into the Pechora River. The Polar Urals tend to the northeast and the Usa runs parallel to them. It is in the Komi Republic of Russia and the largest tributary of the Pechora River, which it joins from...
, Komi Republic
Komi Republic
The Komi Republic is a federal subject of Russia .-Geography:The republic is situated to the west of the Ural mountains, in the north-east of the East European Plain...
, Russia
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
. The site includes stone artifacts, animal bones and a mammoth
Mammoth
A mammoth is any species of the extinct genus Mammuthus. These proboscideans are members of Elephantidae, the family of elephants and mammoths, and close relatives of modern elephants. They were often equipped with long curved tusks and, in northern species, a covering of long hair...
tusk with human-made marks. Dated to 40,000 years before present, this is the oldest documented evidence of humans at this latitude.