Posted on 12/18/2024 6:06:04 AM PST by SunkenCiv
Researchers found direct evidence that Clovis people relied heavily on mammoths for food, using isotopic analysis to confirm 40% of a Clovis mother's diet came from mammoths. The study highlights how hunting large animals supported the Clovis people's mobility and rapid spread, while also contributing to the extinction of Ice Age megafauna...
The study, featured on the Dec. 4 cover of the journal Science Advances, employed stable isotope analysis to reconstruct the diet of the mother of an infant found at a 13,000-year-old Clovis burial site in Montana. Previously, researchers inferred prehistoric diets primarily through indirect evidence, such as stone tools or the preserved remains of prey animals...
"What's striking to me is that this confirms a lot of data from other sites. For example, the animal parts left at Clovis sites are dominated by megafauna, and the projectile points are large, affixed to darts, which were efficient distance weapons," said co-lead author Ben Potter, an archaeology professor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks...
Hunting mammoths provided a flexible way of life, Potter said. It allowed the Clovis people to move into new areas without having to rely on smaller, localized game, which could vary significantly from one region to the next.
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It really takes a pair to poke an elephant with that thing.
Especially since there were no hospitals back then.
That is beautiful, look at that perfect flute... That is hard to do.
https://phys.org/news/2017-04-archaeologist-fluting-ancient-stone-weaponry.html
:^) Excavating a fossil mammoth is a grueling tusk.
That’ll l’arn ‘em. Still beats singin’ that song. :^)
The first hunters to spot one and suggest the idea heard the warning of their tribal elder, “Watch it now, watch it. They are bullies. Woolly bullies.”
That is a great Clovis example. I have six Clovis points. I need to frame them. I have a large framed collection of Folsom points which look like the Clovis points, but without the fluting.
Beautiful work. I can’t remember who the knapper is, but he’ll find it.
Makes sense. If anyone had the right key, it was the Clavis people.
For some years now, Texas Road Kill Chili has been my entry in chili cookoffs. I’ve thought about switching to Endangered Species Chili. Know where I can get mammoth?
I’d prefer fresh, but the quick frozen ones that come out of the tundra sometimes would probably work for chili. Just throw in more jalapenos to mask the gaminess.
Very cool specimen. It is hard to make a Flute that long without ending up with a step or hinge. I have often wondered what exact method they did indeed use since we can only guess and derive our own methods.
“isotopic analysis”
I missed finding out exactly what the definition of that was in my science class in grade school.
Also, they were good at towing. In fact, Leave it to Beaver was based on a real family, descended from ice age hunters.
The study highlights how hunting large animals supported the Clovis people’s mobility and rapid spread, while also contributing to the extinction of Ice Age megafauna...
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No. The event in 10900 BC wiped out the megafauna worldwide over night, and incidentally wiped out the Clovis people, to boot.
Whale
Sorry, the points that look like the clovis, but without the flute are Dalton points. The Folsom points have the flute for the length of the point.
Mammoths were hunted to extinction.
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No they were not. All megafauna, including mammoths, were wiped out in an Event in 10,900 BC all over the world.
I saw a documentary ... he cut open a mammoth
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You mean they were filming scenes like that 11,000 years ago?
The extinction of mammoths
nationalgeographic.com+3
was likely caused by a combination of factors:
Climate change: As the Pleistocene gave way to the Holocene, the climate became warmer and wetter, reducing the mammoth’s habitats.
Human impact: Fire, development of tools, and hunting by humans likely played a role.
Genetic changes: The mammoth population gradually lost harmful genetic mutations, but some other random event sealed their fate.
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