{"id":887,"date":"2015-03-25T15:18:59","date_gmt":"2015-03-25T21:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/?p=887"},"modified":"2015-03-26T11:13:11","modified_gmt":"2015-03-26T17:13:11","slug":"what-killed-the-mammoths-and-mastodons-human-hunters-or-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/what-killed-the-mammoths-and-mastodons-human-hunters-or-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"What killed the mammoths and mastodons?  Human hunters or climate change?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Mastodon.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-888\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Mastodon-300x208.jpg\" alt=\"Mastodon\" width=\"300\" height=\"208\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Mastodon-300x208.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Mastodon.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>It&#8217;s not like this is a new discussion in archaeology. \u00a0Archaeologists have been debating this question for almost a century. \u00a0The evidence is strong that megafauna extinctions were caused by a mixture of climate change and human hunting, and that human hunters were here on the continent long before the famed Clovis culture arrived. \u00a0There are four verifiable pre-Clovis mammoth and mastodon sites in North America now: The Schaefer and Hebior sites in Wisconsin, the Manis site in Washington, and the Page-Ladson site in Colorado. \u00a0As well, there are several tantalizing sites that seem to date back more than 40,000 years. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But who were the hunters who came before Clovis? \u00a0Ah&#8230;that&#8217;s a good question.<\/p>\n<p>You might want to read: \u00a0www.pas.org\/cgi\/doi\/10.1073\/pnas.1420650112<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not like this is a new discussion in archaeology. \u00a0Archaeologists have been debating this question for almost a century. \u00a0The evidence is strong that megafauna extinctions were caused by a mixture of climate change and human hunting, and that human hunters were here on the continent long before the famed Clovis culture arrived. \u00a0There [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=887"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":897,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887\/revisions\/897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}