"A 15,000-Year-Old Trap for Catching Woolly Mammoths" Topic
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| Tango01 | 08 Nov 2019 4:08 p.m. PST |
…. Has Been Discovered in Mexico. "Archaeologists working at a site near Mexico City have unearthed a 15,000-year-old trap built by humans to capture mammoths, in what's the first discovery of its kind. Early settlers of the Mexico Basin subdued giant mammoths by digging out deep, wide trenches and then driving the animals into the pits, according to a press release issued by Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH). Scientists with INAH worked at these pits for the past 10 months, pulling out over 800 mammoth bones, some of which exhibited signs of hunting and possibly ritualistic rearrangement…"
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 20thmaine  | 08 Nov 2019 6:33 p.m. PST |
Pretty amazing – and puts a new slant on hunter-gatherer! |
| Tango01 | 09 Nov 2019 12:01 p.m. PST |
Glad you enjoyed it my friend!. (smile)
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