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New evidence supports the theory that a comet explosion over North America around 13,000 years ago caused widespread destruction, leading to the extinction of mammoths, mastodons, and the disappearance of the Clovis culture, by triggering fires, climate cooling, and environmental collapse.
New evidence suggests that a comet explosion over Earth around 13,000 years ago caused the Younger Dryas cooling period, leading to mass extinctions and the disappearance of the Clovis culture, supported by impact markers like shocked quartz and nanodiamonds found at archaeological sites.
Archaeologists in Wyoming have discovered 32 bone needle fragments at the La Prele site, revealing that ancient Americans used tools made from the bones of small carnivores like red foxes and extinct American cheetahs to survive the Ice Age. This finding, published in PLOS ONE, challenges previous assumptions that such tools were made from larger animals like bison or mammoths. The site, associated with the Clovis culture, provides insights into the lives of some of North America's earliest inhabitants.
Researchers have found direct evidence that the Clovis people, who lived in North America around 13,000 years ago, primarily consumed megafauna, with mammoths making up a significant portion of their diet. This conclusion was drawn from chemical analysis of the bones of a child found in Montana, revealing the mother's diet. The study suggests that the Clovis' focus on large prey like mammoths may have contributed to megafaunal extinctions at the end of the Ice Age, as these animals faced new human predators amid ecological stress.