Flood, Fire, and Famine
in the History of Civilization
by Richard Firestone,
Allen West, and
Simon Warwick-Smith
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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Flood, Fire, and Famine
in the History of Civilization
by Richard Firestone,
Allen West, and
Simon Warwick-Smith
Thanks Red Badger, nice twofer!
a MAMMOTH discovery is always huge!
I’m always remembering a scene described in the book, Clan of the Cave Bear where the clan is sitting around a fire and helping themselves to portions of a freshly killed and cooked over the fire Mammoth. She made it sound like a steak dinner or a very good roast.
Being a meat eater I get it. Big ol’ roast, ice age outside...
Mammoths were hunted to extinction.
So much for Indians’ harmony with Mother Nature.
Kumbay-F’ing-Ya.
From youtube.
There’s a lot to eat there.
Doubt it. See the book.
The main problem with the whole tribe eating mammoth was, not drowning in the giant tub of coleslaw.
Thanks!
Mammoth and/or ‘phant fossils led to the ancient myth of the cyclops. That worked out well for Homer though. :^)
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What do elephants taste like?
Those dam humans killed off the great mammoths in North America, why today they’d be jailed!!! /sarc
Mammoth....................
Yep, been saying it for years. They have made thousands of efforts to claim early man were vegans and ate very little meat. Absolute BS. If it wasn’t for meat the species would have went extinct long ago. Edible plants do not produce in the winter and they did not have canning facilities... The idea is completely ignorant and inept from the get go. Another PETA driven political myth.
This is true, I saw a documentary on this where a guy got caught out at night because he was looking for something and forgot his way back. Anyway, he cut open a mammoth and slept in it all night to keep warm. They found him in the morning and he was pretty much ok.
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