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Lehner mammoth kill site plaque 2. The Lehner Mammoth kill and camp site exhibited a number of firsts: It was the first site associated with the Clovis culture to have definable fire hearths. These hearths provided the first radiocarbon dates for the culture (9,000 BCE). This site was also the first to have butchering tools in direct ...
The mammoth could have been driven into the soft alluvium of the Domebo Canyon where it may have become exhausted or stuck in the sediment, which would have allowed for an easier kill. The Domebo site is significant as it shows that the Clovis point-mammoth bone association extends to the eastern margin of the southern Great Plains .
The Naco Mammoth Kill Site is an archaeological site in southeast Arizona, 1 mile northwest of Naco in Cochise County.The site was reported to the Arizona State Museum in September 1951 by Marc Navarrete, a local resident, after his father found two Clovis points in Greenbush Draw (eroded by the Greenbush Creek, a tributary of the San Pedro river), while digging out the fossil bones of a mammoth.
Within a 50-mile radius are nearly a dozen Clovis sites including the Lehner Mammoth Kill Site, the Naco Mammoth Kill Site, the Escapule Clovis Site and the Leikem Clovis Site. The Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management oversees Murray Springs and in 2012, the U.S. Government declared the site a National Historic Landmark. [6]
Additionally, faunal material from the Gault site includes an array of large, medium-sized and small game such as mammoth, bison, horse, deer, rabbit, birds, and turtles, suggesting a generalized diet. One of the most significant finds at the Gault site is that it is one of only twenty mammoth kill sites in the United States. [10]
The Coyote Canyon mammoth dig site near the Tri-Cities is looking for volunteers and also is scheduling group tours. The remains of a Columbian mammoth likely killed in an Ice Age flood 17,000 ...
Bones from at least 200 mammoths have been discovered outside Mexico City, the Associated Press reported. Archaeologists expect to find many more. Meanwhile, construction crews are attempting to ...
At least 12 mammoth, mostly young or female. Figgins believed rocks 12 inches (30 cm) were brought in to assist the kill. Figgins was considered the "Early Man expert" due to his work at the Folsom site in New Mexico. [12] 1973 Joe Ben Wheat, Marie Wormington, Frank Frazier, Vance Haynes: University of Colorado: Total of 15 mammoth.