By Free Republic | Created at 2024-12-18 14:22:04 | Updated at 2024-12-18 16:52:29
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Scientists Uncover Ancient Ice Age Americans' Secret to Survival: Mammoths
SciTechDaily ^ | December 17, 2024 | University of Alaska Fairbanks
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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TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: ancientautopsies; catastrophism; clovis; clovisimpact; dietandcuisine; godsgravesglyphs; huntergatherers; isotopeanalysis; mammoth; mammoths; mastodon; mastodons; montana
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1 posted on 12/18/2024 6:06:04 AM PST by SunkenCiv
To: 75thOVI; Abathar; agrace; aimhigh; Alice in Wonderland; AnalogReigns; AndrewC; aragorn; ...
2 posted on 12/18/2024 6:07:17 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...
3 posted on 12/18/2024 6:07:52 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
To: SunkenCiv
4 posted on 12/18/2024 6:10:55 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
To: SunkenCiv
a MAMMOTH discovery is always huge!
5 posted on 12/18/2024 6:11:20 AM PST by Qwapisking (Q: know the difference between a petulant 6 y.o. and a liberal? A:age. L.Star )
To: SunkenCiv
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...
6 posted on 12/18/2024 6:14:20 AM PST by Beowulf9 (c)
To: SunkenCiv
Mammoths were hunted to extinction.
So much for Indians’ harmony with Mother Nature.
Kumbay-F’ing-Ya.
7 posted on 12/18/2024 6:15:45 AM PST by Uncle Miltie ("Israel will just have to ... kill more Christians” - FR's own "nitzy")
To: All
From youtube.
8 posted on 12/18/2024 6:16:03 AM PST by Liz (As West Texas ranchers occasionally say: “THAT boy had one too many years of college.”)
To: SunkenCiv
There’s a lot to eat there.
9 posted on 12/18/2024 6:20:19 AM PST by Track9
To: Red Badger
10 posted on 12/18/2024 6:21:54 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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