March
25
/ 2019
By The Siberian Times reporter Valuable obsidian travelled during Early Holocene times from Lake Krasnoe in Chukotka to Zhokhov Island deep in the Arctic. But how? The discovery is breathtaking. As the crow flies this is a journey of some 1,500 km (930 miles) but as scientist Yaroslav Kuzmin told us ‘the actual distance that obsidian ‘walked’ is at least 2,000 km (1240 miles). ‘This is not just long-range but ultra-long-range transport of raw materials.’ This Great Ice Road was in operation four times as long ago as the famous Silk Road in Central Asia, and it was twice as old as the commonly accepted age of the Egyptian pyramids. [[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_large","fid":"58587","attributes":{"alt":"The distance between the exchange points is about 700 km
