Publication Date:
2011-10-25
Description:
The tip of a projectile point made of mastodon bone is embedded in a rib of a single disarticulated mastodon at the Manis site in the state of Washington. Radiocarbon dating and DNA analysis show that the rib is associated with the other remains and dates to 13,800 years ago. Thus, osseous projectile points, common to the Beringian Upper Paleolithic and Clovis, were made and used during pre-Clovis times in North America. The Manis site, combined with evidence of mammoth hunting at sites in Wisconsin, provides evidence that people were hunting proboscideans at least two millennia before Clovis.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Waters, Michael R -- Stafford, Thomas W Jr -- McDonald, H Gregory -- Gustafson, Carl -- Rasmussen, Morten -- Cappellini, Enrico -- Olsen, Jesper V -- Szklarczyk, Damian -- Jensen, Lars Juhl -- Gilbert, M Thomas P -- Willerslev, Eske -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2011 Oct 21;334(6054):351-3. doi: 10.1126/science.1207663.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Center for the Study of the First Americans, Department of Anthropology, Texas A&M University, 4352 TAMU, College Station, TX 77843-4352, USA. mwaters@tamu.edu〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22021854" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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*Archaeology
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Bone and Bones
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Geologic Sediments
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History, Ancient
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Humans
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Male
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*Mastodons
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Radiometric Dating
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Time
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Washington
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Weapons/*history
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
