“Ancient Mysteries Unearthed: Discovery of 60 Mammoth Remains near Ingenious Human Traps in Mexico’s Prehistoric Past!”
However, further analysis needs to be done on the fossils found at Lake Xaltocan in order to provide any conclusive evidence on whether or not humans purposefully led them to the mud to be trapped and then killed. Researchers will look for cut marks on the bones that might suggest man had butchered or hunted the animals with weapons.
Wikimedia CommonsExperts continue to study the relationship between early humans and mammoths.
Indeed, as Adam N. Rountrey, a collection manager at the University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology stated, it cannot be ruled out that the mammoths found at Lake Xaltocan or Tultepec were merely scavenged after their natural deaths.
Meanwhile, 15 human burials were also found near Lake Xaltocan and they are believed to belong to farmers from the pre-Hispanic period. Some of the items found alongside the human remains are consistent with Aztec ceramics.
Interestingly, mammoth bones were found so often in Aztec territory that the Aztecs believed them to be proof that legendary giants once roamed the area.
Today, archaeologists are still finding a plethora of mammoth bones in the area surrounding the new airport. “There are too many,” Sánchez Nava reported. “There are hundreds.”
Next, read about the Harvard scientists who plan to resurrect the woolly mammoth. Then, check out these 28,000-year-old woolly mammoth cells which are showing signs of biological life.
