Archaeology Myth #6:
Dino Dinner?
People used to hunt dinosaurs.
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REALITY
Dinosaurs died out 65 million years ago. Fully modern humans (Homo
sapiens) have existed for about 100,000 years and they have
occupied the Americas for about 12,000 years. Humans missed the
dinosaurs by 64.9 million years! The first people in the Americas
hunted big animals such as mammoths and mastodons, and they also
gathered plants.
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Painting of a
mastodon
(a now-extinct North American elephant). |
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