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A mixture of ribs, broken skull bones, molars, bone fragments, and rocks is a pile of garbage from a slaughtered mammoth.
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Nationalgeographic.co.id—Paleontologists have found evidence that about 37,000 years ago mammoths were hunted by humans in the New Mexico region of the United States. They found the bones of the mother and baby mammoth that slaughtered by humans.
Bones from cutting containers record how humans fashioned pieces of their long bones into disposable knives for dismembering carcasses. They then burn it on fire.
What’s interesting about this finding is, the place where this bone was found is in New Mexico. An area that has not been known to human existence until tens of thousands of years later. These findings show that humans lived in New Mexico 37,000 years ago.
The findings have been published in the journal Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution by title “Human Occupation of the North American Colorado Plateau ∼37,000 Years Ago.”
The study, led by University of Texas at Austin scientists, found that the site offers some of the most conclusive evidence for humans settling in North America. Humans turned out to have lived there much earlier than previously thought.
Researchers reveal a wealth of evidence that is rarely found in one place. This includes fossil with blunt fractures, bone-chilling blades with worn edges, and signs of a controlled fire.
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The remains of two mammoths found in New Mexico suggest that humans lived in North America much earlier than thought.
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And thanks to carbon dating analysis of collagen extracted from mammoth bones, this site is known to be 36,250 to 38,900 years old. That makes it one of the oldest known sites left by primordial man in North America.
“What we got was incredible,” said lead author Timothy Rowe, a paleontologist and professor at the UT Jackson School of Geosciences.
“It’s not a charismatic site with a beautiful skeleton laid out on its side. It’s all broken. But that’s the story.”
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