Human presence in the European Arctic nearly 40,000 years ago

@article{Pavlov2001HumanPI,
  title={Human presence in the European Arctic nearly 40,000 years ago},
  author={Pavel Yu. Pavlov and John Inge Svendsen and Svein Indrelid},
  journal={Nature},
  year={2001},
  volume={413},
  pages={64-67},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:1986562}
}
The discovery of traces of human occupation nearly 40,000 years old at Mamontovaya Kurya, a Palaeolithic site situated in the European part of the Russian Arctic implies that either the Neanderthals expanded much further north than previously thought or that modern humans were present in the Arctic only a few thousand years after their first appearance in Europe.
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