In Tultepec, Mexico, two large pits containing more than 1,500 remains of at least 14 mammoths could have been used as traps by prehistoric hunters.New analysis of teeth and bones, along with radiocarbon dating, are rebuilding diet, movement and relationship of these large animals with human communities at the end of the Pleistocene The article Mexico, the mammoth pits: what they tell 13,000 years later comes from Scintilena.
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In Tultepec, Mexico, two large pits containing more than 1,500 remains of at least 14 mammoths could have been used as traps by prehistoric hunters.New analysis of teeth and bones, along with radiocarbon dating, are rebuilding diet, movement and relationship of these large animals with human communities at the end of the Pleistocene The article Mexico, the mammoth pits: what they tell 13,000 years later comes from Scintilena.