“The problem is that humans were not yet supposed to have been there, according to the standard story told to generations of archaeologists. “
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Clovis first is pretty much out the window and most palaeontologists and anthropologists believe man was here before the Clovis extinctions of the Pleistocene Megafauna.
To my knowledge, they ACKNOWLEDGED the presence of clovis projectiles in Mammoth bones.
20+ years ago there was a Mastadon find close to me in Michigan. It was noted then that there were marks on the leg joints that indicated the Natives used tools to
dismember the beast.
If I remember correctly there was also some evidence that they then stored some of the meat by submerging it in the bottom of lakes.