In this scenario, humans moved rapidly through the continent, slaughtering mammoths, mastodons and other large prey as they went. |
Also this period saw the appearance of the mastodons, raccoons, and weasels. |
From mammoths and mastodons the Clovis foragers would have learned much about edible wild plants. |
These extinctions included animals such as mammoths and mastodons, the saber-toothed cat, ground sloths and native American horses and camels. |
Clues from bones tell a remarkable story of an Ice Age drought, where mastodons undertook huge migrations just to survive the seasons. |
Near the corner of Wilshire and La Brea, tourists gape at the remains of saber-toothed cats and mastodons dredged out of prehistoric tar pits. |