[HN Gopher] What were humans doing in the Yukon 24,000 years ago?
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What were humans doing in the Yukon 24,000 years ago?
Author : Brajeshwar
Score : 21 points
Date : 2022-03-14 16:52 UTC (6 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.smithsonianmag.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.smithsonianmag.com)
| grecy wrote:
| I lived in the Yukon for 4 years - it's an incredible place for
| anyone yearning for more adventure in their life. Snowboarding,
| back country skiing in Alaska, hiking, hunting, paddling with
| icebergs, snowshoeing at -40C/F, etc.
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| There were so many woolly mammoths up there it's virtually
| impossible to go mining and not dig one up. (Mining is VERY big
| business up there) It's not uncommon for someone to have a tusk
| lying around in their yard.
| dayofthedaleks wrote:
| The article's evidence suggests the humans in question were
| hunting small bushy horses to extinction.
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