Woolly mammoths (Mammuthus primigenius) in mainland Alaska overlapped with the region’s first people for at least 1,000 years. However, it is unclear how mammoths used the space shared with people. In new research, scientists from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and elsewhere analyzed a 14,000-year-old female mammoth tusk found at the archaeological site of Swan Point in the Shaw Creek basin in interior Alaska to show that she moved nearly 1,000...
