Tultepec

Archaeologists excavating the world’s earliest mammoth traps in Mexico have now recovered the bones of 200 mammoth skeletons, in total, leading them to call the area where they were found “mammoth central.” The additional mammoth skeletons are an exceptional find and are providing more information about how they were hunted by ancient peoples in Mexico, and how both humans and large mammals adapted to climate change in this region. In November 2019, I wrote an Ancient Origins news article about a team of anthropologists and archaeologists from Mexico ’s National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) who had discovered two major mammoth hunting traps in the neighborhood of Tultepec, just north of Mexico City. These have been called the world's