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1 When animals die, they will usually decay.

In northern Russia whole bodies of mammoths have been found in the frozen soils.
The picture below gives an example.

Explain why they did not decay.

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1 (a) (i) Fish fossils have been found in mudstone rock. Explain why they did not decay?

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1 (a) (ii) Some of the mammoths had flint weapons in their bodies.

Suggest two things that this tells us about human evolution.

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1 (b) Mammoths are now extinct. Suggest two reasons for this.

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(Total 7 marks)

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