Almost the entire skeleton of a mammoth was dug up in Michigan, and it has raised many questions as to what exactly happened to the woolly mammoth, the great best of the Ice Age.
Did Humans Kill the Mammoth?
Dan Fisher, paleontologist Dan Fisher proposes that prehistoric people may have killed and butchered the newly discovered mammoth, and what they didn’t consume immediately was refrigerated in the depths of a frigid lake. Other scientists argue that there is no certainty as to what killed the mammoth unless bones are examined for cuts or other clues.
The fact remains that the reason for the extinction of the woolly mammoth, as well as 36 other North American mammoth species at the end of the Ice Age, remains largely unknown and also largely disputed. While it could have been the cavemen, it may as well have been due to a changing climate. …show more content…
Fisher immediately came in to excavate the bones, which included a full skull, tusks and all. It was an interesting find, since woolly mammoths have been uncovered from Europe to Asia and North America, but Michigan soil has covered about ten woolly mammoths, and 300 American mastodon bones.
Chris Widga, paleontologist at the Illinois State Museum, supposes mammoths can’t have been very common in Michigan, because there would have been a lot of waxing and waning of glaciers at the time the beasts walked the land. Michigan was under ice at the time of the mammoth, and by the time the ice had melted, mastodons outnumbered the mammoth, which makes this specific find a very rare one.
New Mammoth Finds Are Always
Did Humans Kill the Mammoth?
Dan Fisher, paleontologist Dan Fisher proposes that prehistoric people may have killed and butchered the newly discovered mammoth, and what they didn’t consume immediately was refrigerated in the depths of a frigid lake. Other scientists argue that there is no certainty as to what killed the mammoth unless bones are examined for cuts or other clues.
The fact remains that the reason for the extinction of the woolly mammoth, as well as 36 other North American mammoth species at the end of the Ice Age, remains largely unknown and also largely disputed. While it could have been the cavemen, it may as well have been due to a changing climate. …show more content…
Fisher immediately came in to excavate the bones, which included a full skull, tusks and all. It was an interesting find, since woolly mammoths have been uncovered from Europe to Asia and North America, but Michigan soil has covered about ten woolly mammoths, and 300 American mastodon bones.
Chris Widga, paleontologist at the Illinois State Museum, supposes mammoths can’t have been very common in Michigan, because there would have been a lot of waxing and waning of glaciers at the time the beasts walked the land. Michigan was under ice at the time of the mammoth, and by the time the ice had melted, mastodons outnumbered the mammoth, which makes this specific find a very rare one.
New Mammoth Finds Are Always