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Did mammoth hunting drive early American migration?
Original: Did the craving for mammoth kabobs drive early American migration?
Oregon Public Broadcasting is asking whether a craving for mammoth meat helped drive the first human migration into the Americas. The question points to the long-standing debate over when and why early peoples crossed into North America, with some researchers suggesting hunting large Ice Age animals such as mammoths may have pulled hunter-gatherer groups eastward.
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- Did the craving for mammoth kabobs drive early American migration? · Oregon Public Broadcasting - OPB
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