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Sunday, May 26, 2024

Gomphothere Butchering Camp Discovered in Chile

 

Newsweek reports that a team of archaeologists led by Rafael Labarca of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile has uncovered a 12,000-year-old site in the Tagua Tagua lake region of central Chile where hunter-gatherers butchered a gomphothere, an extinct relative of the modern elephant. Similar sites have previously been found in the region, which is thought to have supported hunter-gatherers with abundant, diverse, and predictable resources. 

https://www.archaeology.org/news/12419-240524-chile-gomphothere-butcher

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