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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careful deriving. not supposed to drink and derive but some do it anyway claiming it sharpens the mind and the flute. speaking of flutes did you hear about the Neanderthal who stepped on a hinge while performing the flute stoned? yea...mammoth fail. guess you had to be there.
Thank you for clarifying that. :)
Folsoms are smaller too right? More Dart sized?
That is pretty good... :)
“The extinction of mammoths
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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.”
And the fourth, that random event, was most likely a meteor strike around the same time.
That is a mistake we always make. We try to find “that one cause” of a historical event when it might have actually been a combination of variables that happened at the same time.
“No they were not. All megafauna, including mammoths, were wiped out in an Event in 10,900 BC all over the world.”
Yep, the The Younger Dryas impact.
All of the Folsoms that I have seen are smaller. I don’t know if they are all that way. It is interesting how different styles would last a few thousand years and then suddenly a new style became prevalent. The largest Dalton points I have are about six inches long and the smallest are about three inches long. The largest stone spear point I have is a double notch Turkey Tail that is about eight inches long.
“ 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?”
Long ago & far, far away they did.
And the guy used a light saber.
Yup, it’s in the book.
a MAMMOTH discovery is always huge!
In 1873, the geologist Robert Stearns called attention to a single, fossilized tooth on the Channel Islands off the coast of southern California. Despite being considerably small, it bore the distinct ridges of a mammoth tooth — which weren’t known to be among the island’s repertoire of fauna.
By 1928, enough fossils had been found throughout the Channel Islands to make Stearns’ discovery the first of an entirely new species: Mammuthus exilis, or the pygmy mammoth. It’s an apt name for an animal that was abnormally tiny (for a mammoth), standing on average 5 feet 6 inches tall at the shoulder and about 10 times lighter than the larger Columbian mammoths that plodded the mainland.
https://allthatsinteresting.com/pygmy-woolly-mammoth
He told The Siberian Times, “I believe that this mammoth is related to the period of the heyday of the species, which was supposed to be in the Karginsky interglacial time (between 50,000 and 22,000 years ago). Our theory is that in this period the mammoths significantly rose in numbers – and this led to the biggest diversity of their forms. So we want to check this theory.”
There has been some theory that the “junk dna” allowed the mammoth to change in size several times during history.
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Chicken.
From what I understand it is all dependent on the time frame. Sizes started to get smaller as they moved from Megafuana to smaller game. And the progression from Spears to Atlatl and Darts to Arrows the same. Guess they had to make the weapons fit the game available as time went along.
Dwarfism and giantism is often associated with island living, that is, inbreeding due to isolation. The last mammoths known finally croaked out on Wrangel Island about 4000 years ago; remains of other dwarf or pygmy mammoths have been found on Kotelny Island (also off Siberia) and the Channel Islands off California, and on Crete (which also had dwarf hippos and a species of giant rat).
The Wrangle Island mammoths seem to be the last survivors and died out only 4000YA. Icing events that covered their feed are being blamed (weather event).
Like the Tauntaun on the ice world of Hoth — kill ‘em, cut ‘em open, crawl inside. :^)
https://teamcoco.com/video/bill-hader-dying-tauntaun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05CcgmZGN-I
This is often done with teeth, since they tend to survive better in archaeological contexts, but bones work also.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4111817/posts
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2597960/posts
https://search.brave.com/search?q=stable+isotopic+analysis&source=desktop&summary=1
True of most butchers as well.
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Gotta be careful if you meat one on the street.
Sounds like Carbon-14 , or similar.
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