January
21
/ 2019
It has long been debated as to how our ancient ancestors were able to kill mammoths. In Poland, a discovery has been made that should throw more light how prehistoric hunters killed these giants, approximately 25,000 years ago. They have found a javelin in the rib bone of a mammoth and this may demonstrate that humans played a bigger part in the mammoths’ extinction than once believed. The mammoths, or woolly elephants once roamed much of the Northern Hemisphere from North America to Europe. They flourished from approximately 5 million years ago and eventually died out “about 4,000 years ago” according to Fox News. Finds of mammoths are still being made in the permafrost of Siberia. The reasons for the
