Two Michigan farmers made an unexpected discovery in a wheat field last week: the ice-age bones of a mammoth that was likely slaughtered by ancient humans.
An excavation and analysis of the bones suggest they come from an adult male mammoth that had an unlucky end.
“We think that humans were here and may have butchered and stashed the meat [in a pond] so that they could come back later for it,” Daniel Fisher, a Universityof Michigan paleontologist who led the excavation, said in a statement. Once researchers date the bones, the discovery may help determine when early humans lived in the area, Fisher said.
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