Earliest Art in the Americas: Ice Age image of mammoth or mastodon found in Florida
Tuesday, June 21, 2011 - 13:30
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Researchers have discovered a bone fragment, approximately 13,000 years old, in Florida with an incised image of a mammoth or mastodon. This engraving is the oldest and only known example of Ice Age art to depict a proboscidean (the order of animals with trunks) in the Americas.