An artist’s reconstruction of a baby being consumed by its mother mammoth meat
Eric Carlson/Ben Potter (UAF)/Jim Chatters (McMaster University)
Analysis of the bones of a boy who died 12,800 years ago in what is now Montana shows that nearly half of his diet came from mammoth meat.
“To make it 40 percent, that’s it!” he says James Chatters at McMaster University in Canada. In fact, compared to other animals living at this time, the boy’s diet was more similar to that of a carnivorous scimitar-toothed cat…
