First North American hunters 1,000 years earlier than previously thought, speared mastodon fossil shows

Thursday, October 20, 2011 - 15:31 in Paleontology & Archaeology

A new and astonishing chapter has been added to North American prehistory in regards to the first hunters and their hunt for the now extinct giant mammoth-like creatures -- the mastodons. New research has shown that the hunt for large mammals occurred at least 1,000 years before previously assumed.

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