Clovis People Hunted Gomphotheres

[Oxytropidoceras]

Mystery behind Origin of Elephant’s Ancestor Solved

by Stephen Adkins, University Herald, Jluy 15, 2014

http://www.universityherald.com/articles/10411/20140715/elephant-ancestor-arkansas-mammoths-america-humans-continent.htm

Meet the Gomphothere: UA Archaeologist Involved

in Discovery of Bones of Elephant Ancestor by Alexis

Blue, University Relations , University of Arizona

http://uanews.org/story/meet-the-gomphothere-ua-archaeologist-involved-in-discovery-of-bones-of-elephant-ancestor

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2014-07/uoa-mtg071114.php

The paper is:

Sanchez, G., V. T. Holliday, E. P. Gaines, J. Arroyo-Cabrales,

N. Martínez-Tagüeña, A. Kowler, T. Lange, G. W. L. Hodgin,

S. M. Mentzer, and I. Sanchez-Morales, 2014, Human (Clovis)–

gomphothere (Cuvieronius sp.) association ∼13,390 calibrated

yBP in Sonora, Mexico. Journal Proceedings of the National

Academy of Sciences. Published online before print July 14,

2014, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1404546111

http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2014/07/10/1404546111.abstract

Yours,

Paul H.

Edited July 15, 2014 by Oxytropidoceras