Michigan Mammoth May Have Been Butchered By Humans

Forbes reports that a mammoth recently unearthed in rural Michigan includes evidence that the animal was butchered for food: From the article: A small stone that could potentially be a cutting tool was also found with the mammoth bones. To confirm that this animal was butchered by humans, researchers will examine the bones for cut marks that would indicate people were processing it for meat. A third piece of evidence is the organized way the neck vertebrae of the mammoth were found. "An animal doesn't just come apart naturally leaving a sequence of tightly articulated vertebrae like that," Fisher said, indicating that the animal would have had to have been moved by humans for paleontologists to find the bones laid out in such a fashion.

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Re:Okay.

[Rainbow Nerds]

Well, for one, it provides evidence of human activity in that region. It's not entirely clear when humans migrated into that area, so it provides information about human migration. It also provides some information about the climate of the area because the mammoth was limited to surviving in certain habitats. Yes, it's obvious that humans hunted the woolly mammoth, but it's new for that region.

Aboriginals destroyed teh megafauna

[mauriceh]

So much evidence points to the extinctions of megafauna on several continents by man.

Meanwhile the aboriginal peoples try to push the myth that they are" safe custodians" of wildlife.

That is simply bullshit. They have had zero regards for anything other than their own greed.

And yet, somehow, we still allow illegal hunting and fishing by people, because it is "their heritage".