{"id":134061,"date":"2024-12-06T18:27:03","date_gmt":"2024-12-06T11:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=134061"},"modified":"2024-12-06T18:27:03","modified_gmt":"2024-12-06T11:27:03","slug":"ancient-americans-chowed-down-on-mammoth-steak-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=134061","title":{"rendered":"Ancient Americans chowed down on mammoth steak, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-editable=\"content\" itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-reorderable=\"content\">\n<p data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/editor-note\/instances\/cm4bi39cu0001356mofulolxh@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"editor-note\" class=\"editor-note vossi-editor-note inline-placeholder \" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n    <em>Sign up for CNN\u2019s Wonder Theory science newsletter.\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/newsletters\/wonder-theory?source=nl-acq_article\"><em>Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more<\/em><\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n    <cite class=\"source__cite\"><br \/>\n      <span class=\"source__location\" data-editable=\"location\"\/><br \/>\n      <span class=\"source__text\" data-editable=\"source\">CNN<\/span><br \/>\n        \u00a0\u2014\u00a0<br \/>\n    <\/cite>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm4bepgk1004926nihzp52lmo@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Ancient ancestors of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/12\/04\/science\/ancient-needles-discovery-wyoming\/index.html\">Native Americans<\/a>,<strong> <\/strong>known as the Clovis people, mostly ate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/07\/11\/science\/fossil-chromosomes-woolly-mammoth-skin-discovery\/index.html\">mammoths<\/a> and other large animals during the most recent ice age, according to a new study.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm4beqgfy0006356moq3kyyxy@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Scientists examined the chemical signatures left by food items in the remains of an 18-month-old child who was buried about 13,000 years ago before being discovered in 1968 near Wilsall, a small town nestled in southwest Montana.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm4beqgfy0007356m3yvvr795@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Since the young boy was still nursing, the team of scientists from American and Canadian universities were able to infer his mother\u2019s diet.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm4beqgfy0008356mgxicgsje@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            They concluded that she mostly ate mammoths, which made up around 35% of her diet, as well as elk, bison and camel while her consumption of small mammals and plants was neglible.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm4beqgfy0009356mb191ibiu@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Such a discovery made the Clovis people \u201cmore real to me as folks I could almost interact with directly,\u201d said co-lead author James Chatters of McMaster University, Ontario, in a press briefing. \u201cIt\u2019s gone from being artifacts in the dirt and animal bones and patterns in the landscape to a group of people I can imagine.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm4beqgfy000a356msr6fytm6@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The Clovis people likely travelled long distances following the mammoths\u2019 migration routes, helping to explain how they \u201ccould spread throughout North America and into South America in just a few hundred years,\u201d Chatters added in a statement.\n    <\/p>\n<div data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/image\/instances\/cm4bf36zo000s356myhj009ku@published\" class=\"image image__hide-placeholder\" data-image-variation=\"image\" data-name=\"AP23296737630025.jpg\" data-component-name=\"image\" data-observe-resizes=\"\" data-breakpoints=\"{\" image--eq-extra-small=\"\" data-original-ratio=\"0.6665\" data-original-height=\"1333\" data-original-width=\"2000\" data-url=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/ap23296737630025.jpg?c=original\" data-editable=\"settings\">\n<div class=\"image__container \" data-image-variation=\"image\" data-breakpoints=\"{\" image--eq-extra-small=\"\">\n       <picture class=\"image__picture\"><source height=\"1333\" width=\"2000\" media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/ap23296737630025.jpg?q=w_1110,c_fill\/f_webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><source height=\"1333\" width=\"2000\" media=\"(min-width: 960px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/ap23296737630025.jpg?q=w_1015,c_fill\/f_webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><source height=\"1333\" width=\"2000\" media=\"(min-width: 480px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/ap23296737630025.jpg?q=w_1160,c_fill\/f_webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><source height=\"1333\" width=\"2000\" media=\"(max-width: 479px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/ap23296737630025.jpg?q=w_680,c_fill\/f_webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/ap23296737630025.jpg?q=w_1110,c_fill\" alt=\"A woolly mammoth model is seen during installation at the American Museum of Natural History in October 2023.\" class=\"image__dam-img image__dam-img--loading\" onload=\"this.classList.remove('image__dam-img--loading')\" onerror=\"imageLoadError(this)\" height=\"1333\" width=\"2000\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm4beqgfy000c356mxxpesd8v@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Experts have long known that the Clovis people used weapons tipped with a sharp, lance-shaped \u201cClovis points\u201d to kill mammoths and other large game but until now, only secondary evidence like animal remains or specific weapons found at archaeological sites had been available to suggest their diet, according to the study.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm4beqgfy000b356mh6hh59gu@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            That led to much debate regarding the diet of the Clovis people, with some scientists arguing they hunted large animals and others suggesting that they had a more varied diet including small animals, plants and fish, given the difficulties of hunting such large animals.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm4bepk9d0000356mjooiclcj@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            According to Gary Haynes, an emeritus professor at the University of Nevada who wasn\u2019t involved in the study, \u201cthis new paper refutes that (second) line of reasoning.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm4bg4szc000v356mr8d3l02r@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cThe significance of this paper is it provides direct rather than circumstantial evidence that mammoths were in the Pleistocene diet,\u201d Haynes, who has long studied ice age animals and the Clovis people, told CNN<strong> <\/strong>Thursday<strong>.<\/strong>\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm4beqgfy000d356mr7p733ay@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            To provide direct evidence, this paper used stable isotope analysis, which, after adjusting for the effects of<strong> <\/strong>nursing, allowed scientists to identify the specific foods that the infant\u2019s mother ate by studying different variants, called isotopes, of carbon and nitrogen.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm4beqgfy000g356m20aoqv5p@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Scientists compared the mother\u2019s isotopic signatures to other food items to reach their conclusions. They also compared it to other omnivores and carnivores, finding that her diet was most similar to a scimitar cat that primarily hunted mammoths.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm4beqgfy000h356mmlp4i0bm@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            For Shane Doyle, executive director of Yellowstone Peoples, who liaised with Native American tribes throughout the study, the findings illustrate \u201chow amazing (the Clovis people) really were.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm4beqgfy000i356murwx8ktb@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cThey were skilled, but they were determined, and they were some of the most resilient people that have ever been on this planet,\u201d Doyle said in a press briefing.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm4bghp6l000y356mddcjj60n@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            By hunting mammoths, it is possible that humans helped hasten the animal\u2019s extinction.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm4bgk6fb0011356m3wv9mlh1@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cThe largest mammoth sites in the USA and Central Europe contain the remains of mainly younger animals\u2026 possibly the easiest to kill,\u201d Haynes said. \u201cThe removal of this generation of animals in North America during a period of critical climate change could have been the main factor that led to mammoth extinction.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm4bgzalf0002356m16rp20l8@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The study was published Wednesday in the journal Science Advances.\n    <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/12\/06\/science\/north-america-mammoths-diet-intl-scli\/index.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sign up for CNN\u2019s Wonder Theory science newsletter.\u00a0Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. 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