Have you ever wondered what prehistoric humans ate 13,000 years ago?
The results of the study confirm the latter theory.
The team analyzed isotopic data, measuring atoms in samples to uncover their origins and ancient eating habits.
An artist’s rendition of Clovis people eating mammoth, and the December 4 cover of the journal Science Advances.© The image was created in a collaboration between the artist, Eric Carlson (Desert Archaeology, Inc.) and archaeologists Ben Potter (University of Alaska Fairbanks) and Jim Chatters (McMaster University).
According to the study, 40% of the Clovis womans food came frommammoths.
The researchers (and Edna Mode) would think not.
Whats striking to me is that this confirms a lot of data from other sites.
Location of the Anzick child discovery, study faunal samples (circles), and important Clovis sites (triangles). The white is the glacial ice around 12,800 years ago. © Chatters et al., Sci. Adv. 10, eadr3814 (2024)
The megafauna theory is also consistent with several other elements.
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