Jul 15, 2014
h/t +KQED SCIENCE Four-tusked elephant relative. It's what's for dinner. #earlyamericans #food ▼ Reshared Post From KQED SCIENCE ▼ Early Americans dined on four-tusked elephant relative, say scientists "There's a new mega-mammal on the menu of America's first hunters. On a ranch in northwestern Sonora, Mexico, archaeologists have discovered 13,400-year-old weapons mingled with bones from an extinct elephant relative called the gomphothere. The animal was smaller than mastodons and mammoths, but most had four sharp tusks for defense." Link to the journal abstract: http://goo.gl/LC6GlU See more photos of the site here: http://goo.gl/fGjF5N http://click-to-read-mo.re/p/8dyp/534e9865