Cut marks on the bones of extinct tusked mammals at Lake Tagua Tagua in central Chile show that people were butchering gomphotheres between 12,000 and 13,000 years ago, adding to evidence of some of the earliest human presence in the Southern Cone of South America.
Butchered Gomphothere Bones in Chile Push Back Timeline of Early Americans
Cut marks on the bones of extinct tusked mammals at Lake Tagua Tagua in central Chile show that people were butchering gomphotheres between 12,000 and 13,000 years ago, adding to evidence of some of the earliest human presence in the Southern Cone of South America.
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