Etchings of fighting camels found on 13,000-year-old mammoth tusks in Siberia are the earliest known drawings of the animal ever found in Asia, researchers claim. A team from the Khakassian Research Institute for Language, Literature, and History in Russia examined the tusk found in the lower Tom river in western Siberia. The difference to those is that this shows camels 'fighting' neck to neck and one pair have arrows and wounds suggesting they were hunted by humans. 'The engravings on the tusk from the Tom River have special features, which make them difficult to document,' said Esin. He said the Tom River tusk itself demonstrates that engraving different materials was an important part of cultural tradition in the Upper Paleolithic.

Source: Daily Mail July 10, 2020 10:30 UTC