The community at Yana navigated these extremes.

They stored food — likely in permafrost caches that the cold would preserve.

They hunted seasonally, taking the large prey animals when they were most vulnerable or most abundant.

They moved through the landscape, following the migrations of game or exploiting different resource patches at different times of year.

The evidence from the Yana site itself speaks to the range of animals they were taking.

Among the animal bones recovered from the excavations: mammoth, woolly rhinoceros, bison, horse, reindeer, cave lion, arctic fox, wolverine, and a variety of smaller mammals.