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‘There are too many’: bones of 60 mammoths found in Mexico | Mexico | The Guardian
Archaeologists have found the bones of about 60 mammoths at an airport under construction just north of Mexico City, near human-built “traps” where more than a dozen mammoths were found last year.
Both discoveries reveal how appealing the area – once a shallow lake – was for the mammoths, and how erroneous was the classic vision of groups of fur-clad hunters with spears chasing mammoths across a plain.
Mexican mammoth trap provides first evidence of prehistoric hunting pits
For the moment, however, Mexican archaeologists are facing a surfeit of mammoths, almost too many to ever excavate.
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The animals were attracted to a once shallow lake filled with delicious plants. The prehistoric hunters dug 6-foot-deep trapping pits from which the huge animals could not get out.
Archaeologists have found the bones of about 60 mammoths at an airport under construction just north of Mexico City, near human-built “traps” where more than a dozen mammoths were found last year.
Both discoveries reveal how appealing the area – once a shallow lake – was for the mammoths, and how erroneous was the classic vision of groups of fur-clad hunters with spears chasing mammoths across a plain.
Mexican mammoth trap provides first evidence of prehistoric hunting pits
For the moment, however, Mexican archaeologists are facing a surfeit of mammoths, almost too many to ever excavate.
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The animals were attracted to a once shallow lake filled with delicious plants. The prehistoric hunters dug 6-foot-deep trapping pits from which the huge animals could not get out.
