Mexican mammoth trap provides first evidence of prehistoric hunting pits
More than 800 bones found including one with spear wound‘This is evidence of direct attacks on mammoths’
by Jo Tuckman in Mexico City
Nov 07, 2019
1 minute
Mexican archaeologists say they have made the first ever discovery of pits built around 15,000 years ago to trap mammoths.
Announcing the find on Wednesday, researchers from Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History said
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