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Sakha Republic
Lower Yana River near Kazachye
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What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
FossilsAlso reported: mammoth tusks, woolly rhino and horse remains.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Partonez (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Why this spot
Late Pleistocene
National Geographic reports tusk hunters working the Yana River around Ust-Yansk and Kazachye, where thawing riverbanks release mammoth ivory.View source →
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
extreme remoteness, cold, border patrols
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