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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I’d go for some Bigfoot chili myself.
Wow, as a life long collector I am jealous... I am in the southwest and should have found a few Clovis points by now but have not. Mine are all from more recent cultures. One thing I do have I can take pride in is a whole arrow with the shaft, fletching, and sinew bindings all intact. Looks almost new except for the natural patina from aging. Found it buried way back in a dry desert cave. It is Paiute in origin.
NatGeo like the Smithsonian are a bunch of hucksters.
NatGeo wrong on all counts, as usual.
That is pretty cool! It is not just functional, it is a work of art! That is about the fanciest non-modern work I have ever seen aside from some knife blades!
Finding a complete arrow is really unusual!
“Finding a complete arrow is really unusual!”
Don’t I know it! I was beside myself when I uncovered it and the feather Fletchings and bindings were still there! It only had about a half inch of light talc like cave dust on it. Just enough to protect it from the elements. What drew me to it was the point was just sticking out slightly from the dust. As I pinched the point to pull it out it was locked firm when it should not have been and that told me it was attached to something more. So I gently uncovered it little by little and was flabbergasted that it was whole. How it didn’t get eaten by bacteria and enzymes I have no clue. Maybe that it was in such a very dry environment I guess.
Mammoths were all over North America in the days of the Clovis people—not just at Mammoth Cave.
40% of a Clovis mother’s diet came from mammoths.
No wonder they were all big boned some DMA at work?
THEY went extinct when the ASTEROID HIT THE EARTH & screwed up plant growth for a number of years.
Shit... I could have sworn that was a Mutual of Omaha special.
XD XD
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