A team of scientists from Dartmouth College found that more than 10 thousand years ago people and mammoths lived on the same territory.
About it informs Daily Mail.
The animals lived there 12,800 years ago, and people arrived in the region 10,500 years ago. We came to this conclusion by using Radiocarbon dating of a fragment of a mammoth rib on Mount Holly, discovered in Vermont in 1848. Habitat the extinct herbivores coincided with the appearance of the first humans in the northeast. This is the first evidence that mammoths and humans shared the region together. But such research does not confirm that people inthere were animals or had anything to do with their disappearance.
“For a long time, it was believed that fauna and people in New England did not intersect in time and space. But our research provides some of the first evidence that they could actually coexist, “ – said Researcher Nathaniel R. Kitchel.
The remains of a mammoth on Mount Holly were discovered in the summer of 1848 during the construction of the Burlington and Rutland railway lines. Found there one molar, two canines and several unknown bones. However, over the years, samples were transported to various museums, laboratories and other research institutions, many of them were placed in boxes and forgotten.
Later, the bone of the rib was discovered by a scientist Kitchell. He began to examine the remains. The team made A 3D scan of the material revealed that the bone belonged to a mammoth.
As “Apostrophe” reported, archaeologists have found in a cave on the coast of Alaska a fragment of a dog’s bone 10,200 years old… She can tell about the migration of primitive people to North America from Eurasia.
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