Did Clovis People Hunt Mammoths or Simply Scavenge Their Carcasses?

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Did Clovis People Hunt Mammoths or Simply Scavenge Their Carcasses?

An artist’s reconstruction of Clovis life 13,000 years ago shows the Anzick-1 infant with his mother consuming mammoth meat near a hearth. Another individual crafts tools, including dart projectile points and atlatls. A mammoth butchery area is visible nearby. Image credit: Eric Carlson / Ben Potter / Jim Chatters.

For decades, the discovery of stone spear points lying next to proboscidean (mammoth, mastodon, and gomphothere) bones has been treated as archaeology’s version of a smoking gun.

The post Did Clovis People Hunt Mammoths or Simply Scavenge Their Carcasses? appeared first on Sci.News: Breaking Science News.

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