Siberian scientist leads team making unexpected discovering in Kyrgyzstan.
Evidence on Arctic island show how people 10,000 or more years ago carved sharp slices off tusks to use for killing and cutting.
Shots fired at island campsite to scare away beast which then drops ancient limb preserved in permafrost since prehistoric times.
Ancient hunters butchered woolly mammoths at Taba-Yuryakh site some 26,000 years ago.
Almost 1,300 bones of 13 species of mammals unearthed at new site on Gydan peninsula aged between 10,000 and 50,000 years old.
Unique archeological and paleontological sites face destruction from gangs seeking to raid and sell prehistoric remains.
For hundreds of years visitors to this Arctic outpost have been frightened by terrifying totems and human sacrifices.
Remains from the Zhokhov island in the East Siberian Arctic show trained sled dogs existed almost 10,000 years ago.