Paleolithic People in Mongolia May Have Consumed Giant Camel

TUCSON, ARIZONA—Camelus knoblochi, a species of big two-humped camel, survived in Mongolia alongside fashionable people—and maybe Neanderthals and Denisovans—till about 27,000 years in the past, in accordance with a press release launched by Frontiers. Fossilized stays of the enormous camel have been present in Tsagaan Agui Cave alongside artifacts left behind by Paleolithic individuals. One metacarpal bone, dated to between 59,000 and 44,000 years in the past, bears butchery marks and marks made by gnawing hyenas, mentioned Arina M. Khatsenovich of the Russian Academy of Sciences. People might have hunted or scavenged big camels, she defined. John W. Olsen of the College of Arizona added that the drying of the local weather, looking by people, and competitors with Camelus ferus, the wild Bactrian camel, all might have contributed to the extinction. Learn the unique scholarly article about this analysis in Frontiers in Earth Science. To examine camel reliefs courting to the mid-sixth millennium B.C. in northern Saudi Arabia, go to “Oldest Animal Artwork,” one among ARCHAEOLOGY’s High 10 Discoveries of 2021.