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Smarter than they thought: scientists figured out how a prehistoric man hunted mammoths

Skeletons of at least 14 mammoths discovered in Mexico. This sometimes happens, but now for the first time it became clear that already 15 of thousands of years ago, people arranged traps for mammoths, writes Air force.

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In the area of ​​the village of Tultepec, north of Mexico City, two such traps were found - apparently specially dug and disguised pits into which mammoths fell, after which the hunters killed them.

It is possible that the ancient people specifically drove mammoths towards such traps.

The discovery of traps radically changes our ideas about how prehistoric people hunted these huge animals.

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Mexican archaeologists say that even more mammoth traps can be found in the area.

Until now, it was believed that people hunted only for sick or wounded mammoths. Or when the animals themselves fell into natural traps, such as a swamp.

But the discovery at excavations in Mexico indicates that the hunt for mammoths was organized much more difficult.

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Diego Prieto Hernandez, director of the Mexican Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH), says the latest discovery is a turning point in our understanding of how ancient people interacted with huge mammals.

Each trap is a pit with a depth of 1,7 meters and 25 meters in diameter. They were designed to ensure that the mammoth that got there could not get out.

The first mammoth skeleton in the Tultepek region was discovered in the 2016 year. Judging by the condition of the bones, it was cut into meat by people.

According to the prevailing scientific ideas, since there was a swampy lake in that area, people simply waited for the mammoth to get stuck in the mud, and then they attacked it.

Mammoths, like elephants related to them, prefer not to go far from sources of drinking water.

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Some scholars suspected that primitive hunters drove prey to a dangerous place for her, but this theory did not have confirmation.

Now, after the discovery of pit traps, it becomes clear that human society at that time was already organized enough to dig deep pits of the right size with the minimum available tools, and also understood the behavior of the mammoth and was able to manipulate it.

15 thousands of years in this part of North America, the so-called Colombian mammoths abounded. Their skeletons are relatively often found near ancient lakes, from where the theory came that they simply got bogged down in marshy areas.

Colombian mammoths were larger than their relatives in Europe and Asia.

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