The Long Journey: Reindeer and Humans from Palaeolithic to Anthropocene

Reindeer and humans arrived in Europe at roughly the same time.

The reindeer took a winding route from South America, through North America and Beringia in far-eastern Russia, before crossing the Ural Mountains and beginning the journey southwestward into Europe. Humans, on the other hand, started in Africa and entered Europe from the south.

One adapted to a life surrounded by snow and ice; the other was entirely dependent on the heat of the sun. A claim that such vastly different species w...