Today’s episode is all about mega-fauna and human interactions. Our first story takes us to a creek in Iowa where the first complete mastodon for that state has been found. Next we go to UC Berkeley where researchers think they’ve figured out, through research and experimental archaeology, how early humans took down those big animals. Finally we move over to Spain where new research is suggesting that Neanderthals didn’t ONLY eat big, slow, animals but adapted to take down smaller game. They were smarter than we think they were, of course!

Links

• Segment 1
  13,600-year-old prehistoric mammal found preserved in Iowa creek, researchers say
• Segment 2
  Early humans used an interesting technique to hunt big animals
  Clovis points and foreshafts under braced weapon compression: Modeling Pleistocene megafauna encounters with a lithic pike
• Segment 3
  New Archaeological Discoveries Challenge Widely Held Beliefs About Neanderthals
  Living on the edge: Abric Pizarro, a MIS 4 Neanderthal site in the lowermost foothills of the southeastern Pre-Pyrenees (Lleida, Iberian Peninsula)

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