13,300 year-old spear made from a rhino horn found in Siberia

• A spear made from a woolly rhino horn which has been unearthed on an island in Siberia could be more than 13,300 years old, said a report. 

• The spear, used by Palaeolithic man in the Arctic, was discovered on the island of Bolshoy Lyakhovsky, off the north coast of Siberia.

• The horn was uncovered by paleontologists searching for mammoth remains on the Arctic island.

• This find helps our understanding of how far north people penetrated in the Palaeolithic Era.

• The spear could have been used to kill woolly mammoths and rhinos, both of which became extinct thousands of years ago in Siberia.