Staggering Number of Bones of Extinct Ice Age Animals Found in Mexico

Apparently, archaeologists have also found a few human skeletal remains at the excavation site

More than hundred bones of animals, now extinct, that thrived over 10,000 years ago (the late Pleistocene period), have been discovered in the state of Hidalgo, in central-eastern Mexico.

Remains of megafauna that lived more than 10,000 years ago in what is now the Valley of Mexico. (Photo: INAH)

The discovery was made at a construction site of a wastewater treatment plant near the river El Salto in the city of Atotonilco de Tula, archaeologists at the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH), announced in a statement.

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The remains include bones of several extinct animals including mastodons and mammoths among others, which were found scattered at different distances within an area of approximately 100 hectares, and as deep as 10 metres.

“The skeletal remains of extinct animals, some of which measure up to 1.60 m, corresponding to ribs, vertebrae, skulls, jaws, defences (fangs), horns and shells, of species such as glyptodont, mastodon, mammoth, camel, horse, deer, bison and possibly other as yet unidentified,” INAH archaeologists said, adding that it took about five months of excavation work to dig out all the remains.

Though remains of mammoths have been found in the past as well, archaeologists are dubbing it as the biggest discovery of the Ice Age’s large-bodied animal remains ever made in the region.

“This is the most numerous and varied discovery of remains of extinct megafauna, found together, registered so far in the Basin of Mexico” INAH archaeologist Alicia Bonfil Olivera said.

Human Bones

Apparently, archaeologists have also found a few human skeletal remains at the excavation site but scientific investigation for confirmation is yet to be done. However, two stone tools found in the excavation suggest that the bones may be of a human.

“The characteristics and size of some bones indicate that it is human limbs, which is not surprising because it is known that man lived in central Mexico at that time.”

The sediments and sand layer in which the faunal remains were found further indicate that the animals and possibly humans probably were trapped in landslides and got buried in the debris.

A) The staff has to put on pants, and shirts. Hair in the food is wrong.

ii) After staff has brought it down and bled it out, I would instruct them on how to peel an armadillo.

3) Prep by cutting excess fat off, portion into 20 lbs pieces, marinate in my Coffee/Beer BBQ sauce for 2 days at 40F.

IV. Grill over open flame (I prefer mesquite wood).

E. Serve with baked beans, potato salad, iced tea, beer, and homemade ice cream.

/johnny

I suspect this is a thanatoscenose assemblage of Pleistocene megafauna. They probably died due to a large rain (flood) and their bodies washed down into a common chokepoint on the river, the bodies decayed and ended up on some riverbottom. With time the channel of the river changed and the bones became the property of an oxbow lake which finally filled in through eutrophication. They laid there until they were found.

Excerpts from "Earth in Upheaval" (c) Doubleday 1955

Page 3 - "What could have caused the Artic Sea and the Pacific Ocean to irrupt and wash away forests with all their animal population and throw the entire mingled mass in great heaps scattered all over Alaska, the coast of which is no longer the Atlantic seaboard from Newfoundland to Florida?

Was it not a tectonic revolution in the earth's crust, that also caused the volcano's to erupt and to cover the peninsula with ashes?

In various levels of the muck, stone artifacts were found 'frozen in situ at great depths and in apparent association' with the Ice Age fauna, which implies that 'men were contemporary with extinct animals in Alaska.'

The people you are calling Native Americans got here about 6,000 years after the folks featured in the article below.

Vintage Skulls

"The oldest human remains found in the Americas were recently "discovered" in the storeroom of Mexico's National Museum of Anthropology. Found in central Mexico in 1959, the five skulls were radiocarbon dated by a team of researchers from the United Kingdom and Mexico and found to be 13,000 years old. They pre-date the Clovis culture by a couple thousand years, adding to the growing evidence against the Clovis-first model for the first peopling of the Americas.

Of additional significance is the shape of the skulls, which are described as long and narrow, very unlike those of modern Native Americans.

Thanks for that Fred! I’m now on my third reading of EIU. I have come to find that “V” was into serious economy of words for his writing style. For a boomer like myself, comprehension skills have suffered a great deal and “V” can’t be read like your typical novel. At times EVERY sentence in a paragraph; not just the first, is important to the overall message he is imparting. In any case, third time’s the charm I hope.

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