Valuable obsidian travelled during Early Holocene times from Lake Krasnoe in Chukotka to Zhokhov Island deep in the Arctic.
Salmon dishes were a firm favourite on the lower Amur River, while meat was on menu upstream.
Scientists now examining new discovery in hunt for 'living cells'.
Wooden statue 5.3m high with eight faces gazed over the water for only two decades, but leaves us with a conundrum 11,600 years later.
Angelina Sadovnikova, then 11, came across the mummified Pleistocene rodent in a cavity left by woolly mammoth tusk diggers.
She has lived in the wilderness for 71 years but famous Old Believer faces the cameras to deliver world a message for first time.
Thanks to Novosibirsk scientists we can see how she looked in real life, the vivid colours she wore and her stylish headdress. And her beauty secrets!
Parts of massive skull were also found in silt of Yamal peninsula’s lake, but sadly there was no brain nor tusks.