Archaeologists Find 25,000-Year-Old Mammoth Rib Pierced With An Arrow From Early Human Hunters
“We finally have a ‘smoking gun,’ the first direct evidence of how these animals were hunted.” P. WotjalA finish - up of the mammoth costa embedded with a palaeolithic flint shard . A obdurate fragment from an early human weapon was let on in a 25,000 - twelvemonth - old gigantic rib in southern Poland last week , further show that humans hunted and were perhaps partially creditworthy for the extinction of the woolly mammoth ....