Arizona's mammoth hunters - out with a whimper or a bang?
Tuesday, April 13, 2010 - 04:49
in Paleontology & Archaeology
A team of researchers from the University of Arizona has revisited evidence pointing to a cataclysmic event thought by many scientists to have wiped out the North American megafauna - such as mammoths, saber tooth cats, giant ground sloths and Dire wolves - along with the Clovis hunter-gatherer culture some 13,000 years ago. The team obtained their findings following an unusual, multidisciplinary approach and published them in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)...