Clovis points are some of the most commonly unearthed objects from the last Ice Age. Thousands have been uncovered over the past century, with some found embedded into mammoth skeletons. Clovis points ...

Depictions of ancient humans in both scientific and popular culture contexts picture them throwing spears at the thick hides of mammoths. A new study from archaeologists at UC Berkeley suggests that ...

The Clovis culture is among the earliest well-documented human cultures in the Americas. Known for their distinctive spear ...

Scientists have unearthed the remains of five enormous 25,000-year-old woolly mammoths in Austria — and they appear to have been hunted and butchered by ancient humans. The mammoths were discovered ...

(The Hill) — Popular depictions of prehistoric hunts tend to show ancient humans hurling their spears into mammoths and mastodons. But such a technique would have been less than useless — leaving a ...

Prehistoric humans hunt a woolly mammoth. More and more research shows that this species – and at least 46 other species of megaherbivores – were driven to extinction by humans. The debate has raged ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...

A single tusk is all that remains of a mammoth that lived approximately 14,000 years ago. Yet that one tusk has enabled scientists to uncover remarkable details about her life. Using ancient DNA, ...

With fangs like daggers and the strength to take down mammoths, sabre-toothed cats ruled the Ice Age plains. For early humans, they were both rival and deadly ...

Mammoths need not have been hunted in that way, but it is difficult to imagine that animals weighing upwards of 20,000 pounds could be bayed up or stampeded by dogs weighing less than a hundredth of ...

Artwork shows three mammoths being watched by a family of ancient Alaskans from the dunes near the Swan Point archaeological site, a seasonal hunting camp occupied 14,000 years ago. Researchers have ...