Domestication of dogs may explain mammoth kill sites and success of early modern humans
Friday, May 30, 2014 - 05:02
in Paleontology & Archaeology
A new analysis of European archaeological sites containing large numbers of dead mammoths and dwellings built with mammoth bones has led to a new interpretation of these sites -- that their abrupt appearance may have been due to early modern humans working with the earliest domesticated dogs to kill the now-extinct mammoth.