Ancient Americans Were Megafauna Hunters, Not Generalists, Study Shows

Jul 6, 2026 - 11:15
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Ancient Americans Were Megafauna Hunters, Not Generalists, Study Shows
Paleo-Indians hunting a glyptodont, a relative of the armadillo that lived during the Pleistocene epoch. By Heinrich Harder, 1920.

New research suggests that the first widespread human cultures in the Americas were not opportunistic foragers who ate whatever they could find, but specialized big-game hunters who built their lives around killing the largest animals on the landscape: mammoths, elephant-like gomphotheres, giant ground sloths, and other Ice Age giants.

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