The skill of ivory softening was used more than 12,000 years ago to make tools - or decorations - that still puzzle modern science.
….and it was worn by a man!
Meet Minsalim Nimergazeev, orphan turned master craftsman from historic Tobolsk.
Evidence on Arctic island show how people 10,000 or more years ago carved sharp slices off tusks to use for killing and cutting.
I found a place and people who have kept their authenticity and culture far from the globalisation, currently killing every culture around the world, one by one.
Leading Russian scientist remains unshaken in view that it was Denisovans despite growing doubts from Western experts.
Cargo with 650 fragments from the extinct beasts was held in Vladivostok after illegal export from Yakutia.
Extinct woolly giant was killed by early man in extreme north, insist palaeontologist ‘detectives’ as spear wound ‘proven’.
None are naked: instead, they're far more interesting…