Hunting for ivory with Clovis points..... what ELSE does anybody think they were doing with ginormous spearheads????
Posted on 07/15/2014 1:27:51 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The primitive folk assessed by many archaeologists as being the original native Americans – that is, the Clovis people – killed and ate the lovable prehistoric elephants that inhabited the continent alongside them, scientists say.
The proto-dumbo species in question is known as the gomphothere. Until recently, it had been thought that gomphotheres had disappeared from North America well before human beings showed up, but new fossil evidence appears to show that at least one cuddly tusker was brutally killed by Clovis people around 13,400 years ago. The luckless pachyderm was then scoffed by its peckish assailants.
"This is the first Clovis gomphothere, it's the first archaeological gomphothere found in North America ... it adds another item to the Clovis menu," says archaeologist Vance Holliday, who took part in the dig which unearthed the fossilised proto-'phant.
(Excerpt) Read more at theregister.co.uk ...
It would have been impossible for humans to have killed off a species with that kind of technology.
“Thanks for clearing that up for me. So who ate all the Unicorns?”
The Chupacabra of course.
Hunting for ivory with Clovis points..... what ELSE does anybody think they were doing with ginormous spearheads????
Unicorn tears make a great mammoth rib rub.
Did the Clovis people drive them to East Asia over the same land bridge that they crossed over, or did they eat them all?
And probably got stampeded off cliffs or into swamps.
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