Artist’s reenactment of a mother and infant eating mammoth meat
Eric Carlson/Ben Potter (UAF)/Jim Chatters (McMaster University)
An analysis of the bones of a young boy who died 12,800 years ago in present-day Montana reveals that almost half of his diet consisted of mammoth meat.
“That’s 40 per cent, which is amazing!” said James Chatters of Canada’s McMaster University. In fact, when compared to other animals living at the time, the boy’s diet was more similar to that of a carnivorous scimitar-toothed cat.
