{"id":265922,"date":"2024-12-05T00:46:35","date_gmt":"2024-12-05T00:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/05\/toddler-bones-show-mammoths-were-the-main-food-of-the-first-americans\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:10:15","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:10:15","slug":"toddler-bones-show-mammoths-were-the-main-food-of-the-first-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/05\/toddler-bones-show-mammoths-were-the-main-food-of-the-first-americans\/","title":{"rendered":"Toddler bones show mammoths were the main food of the first Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"

[ad_1]
\n<\/p>\n

\n
\n
\"An<\/div>
\n
\n

An artist\u2019s reconstruction of the toddler with his mother consuming mammoth meat<\/p>\n

Eric Carlson\/Ben Potter (UAF)\/Jim Chatters (McMaster University)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n

An analysis of the bones of a boy who died in what is now Montana 12,800 years ago shows that nearly half of his diet came from mammoth meat.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo have it turn out to be 40 per cent, it\u2019s just like, wow!\u201d says James Chatters<\/a> at McMaster University in Canada. In fact, when compared with other animals alive at this time, the boy\u2019s diet was more similar to that of the carnivorous scimitar-toothed cat than that of\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

[ad_2]
\n
Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[ad_1] An artist\u2019s reconstruction of the toddler with his mother consuming mammoth meat Eric Carlson\/Ben Potter (UAF)\/Jim Chatters (McMaster University) An analysis of the bones<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":265923,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265922"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}