An El Jobo Mastodon Kill at Taima-taima, Venezuela.
Excavation at Taima-taima in 1976 recovered artifacts of the El Jobo complex in direct association with the butchered remains of a juvenile mastodon. Radiocarbon dates on associated wood twigs indicate a minimum age of 13,000 years before the present for the mastodon kill, a dating significantly older than that of the Clovis complex in North America. The El Jobo complex must have evolved independently in northern South America.
Bryan
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Casamiquela
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Cruxent
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Gruhn
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Ochsenius
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