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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’
A general view of the remains of mammoth specimens found in artificial traps in the municipality of Tultepec, Mexico, on Wednesday. Photograph: Jose Mendez/EPA

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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