Thanks to humans’ propensity for stabbing things, British researchers just found evidence in Siberia that proves mankind pierced north of the Arctic Circle perhaps 15,000 years earlier than assumed.
The findings will be reported in Science Friday. They detail how the scrapes and bones along freshly unearthed frozen mammoth bones match up to those inflicted by ancient hunting weapons. That means that as far back as 45,000 years ago, humans had already figured out how to cope with the Arctic’s deadly cold and darkness by just absolutely dominating nature.
Here’s Liam Neeson’s interpretation, probably.