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By Graeme Murray & Imogen Howse The movements of 14,000-year-old woolly mammoth have been linked to the earliest human hunters on earth. A study of a single mammoth that died 14,000 years ago has shown how some of the first Americans made hunting camps along its 1,000km grazing route. The new findings show America could have been populated by Russian hunters tracking mammoths across the Bering Strait into Alaska. Data collected by a group of scientists on a female mammoth, dubbed Elma, shows early Alaskans are likely to have structured their settlements to overlap with areas where mammoths con…

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