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Trapped in Ice: The Paleolithic World

Tides of History

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The Mammoth Step - A History of Life and Death in Siberia

Usti shim man lived forty five thousand years ago, right in the heart of the mammoth step we talked about earlier. He was presumably part of a band alot of big game hunting horses, bison orox rhinoceros, mammoths and so on. All we have of him is his femer, a leg bone, which a russian sculptor who works with mammoth ivory found eroding out of river bank. The cool conditions in siberia were wonderful for preserving the dna within the sky's femer,. Researchers were able to extract and sequence it.

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