Pre-Clovis mastodon hunting 13,800 years ago at the Manis site, Washington

Michael R. Waters; Thomas Stafford jr.; H. Gregory McDonald; Carl Gustafson; Morten Rasmussen; Enrico Cappellini; Jesper Velgaard Olsen; Damian Milosz Szklarczyk; Lars Juhl Jensen; Tom Gilbert; Eske Willerslev

doi:10.1126/science.1207663

Pre-Clovis mastodon hunting 13,800 years ago at the Manis site, Washington

Michael R. Waters, Thomas Stafford jr., H. Gregory McDonald, Carl Gustafson, Morten Rasmussen, Enrico Cappellini, Jesper Velgaard Olsen, Damian Milosz Szklarczyk, Lars Juhl Jensen, Tom Gilbert, Eske Willerslev

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The tip of a projectile point made of mastodon bone is embedded in a rib of a single disarticulated mastodon at the Manis site in the state of Washington. Radiocarbon dating and DNA analysis show that the rib is associated with the other remains and dates to 13,800 years ago. Thus, osseous projectile points, common to the Beringian Upper Paleolithic and Clovis, were made and used during pre-Clovis times in North America. The Manis site, combined with evidence of mammoth hunting at sites in Wisconsin, provides evidence that people were hunting proboscideans at least two millennia before Clovis.

Originalsprog	Engelsk
Tidsskrift	Science
Vol/bind	334
Udgave nummer	6054
Sider (fra-til)	351-353
Antal sider	3
ISSN	0036-8075
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1207663
Status	Udgivet - 21 okt. 2011

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Pre-Clovis mastodon hunting 13,800 years ago at the Manis site, Washington

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