Study: Ancient Americans Depended Heavily on Mammoth for Food — VOA Learning English
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A new study finds that the first humans to live in North America depended heavily on mammoths and other large animals for food.
The finding is based on examinations of the diet of a woman who lived about 13,000 years ago during the last Ice Age. She belonged to a culture called the Clovis. They were among the first Native Americans to arrive on the continent.
The woman was still breast-feeding her 18-month-old son when he died. The boy’s remains were discovered back in 1968 in an ancient burial ground in the western U.S. state of Montana. Scientists examined his bones to learn more about his mother’s diet.
They found that the woman ate mostly meat from mammoths and other very large animals.…
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