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Study: Indians didn't kill the big animals
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MONDAY, MARCH 31, 2003 Research appearing in the Journal of World Prehistory contends that climate change, and not ancestors of today's American Indians, killed off the large mammals that once roamed North and South America. Donald Grayson, an archaeology professor at the University of Washington, and David Meltzer, of Southern Methodist University, studied records of every site where Indians were linked to animals like mammoths, saber-tooted cats and large horses. They found nothing to suggest that the mammals were driven to extinction by human hunters. Get the Story:
Area sites used to dispute Clovis/extinction link (The Billings Gazette 3/29) Abstract Study:
Clovis Hunting and Large Mammal Extinction: A Critical Review of the Evidence (December 2002) Relevant Links:
Journal of World Prehistory - http://www.kluweronline.com/issn/0892-7537 Related Stories:
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