Relationship With Humans
Modern humans coexisted with woolly mammoths during the Upper Paleolithic period when they entered Europe from Africa between 30,000 and 40,000 years ago. Prior to this, Neanderthals had coexisted with mammoths during the Middle Paleolithic and up to that time. Evidence for such coincidence was brushed aside until the 19th century. In 1864, Édouard Lartet found an engraving of a woolly mammoth on a piece of mammoth ivory in the Abri de la Madeleine cave in Dordogne, France. This was the first widely accepted evidence for the coexistence of humans with extinct animals, and the first known contemporary depiction of such a creature.
A specimen from the Mousterian age of Italy showed evidence of spear hunting by Neanderthals.
The juvenile specimen nicknamed "Yuka" is the first frozen mammoth with evidence of human predation.
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