Photo story: First trap for mammoths discovered in Mexico

A general view of the remains of mammoth specimens found in artificial traps in the municipality of Tultepec, Mexico.

The first artificial traps for mammoths that have been recorded in the world have been discovered in the municipality of Tultepec, in the central State of Mexico, said Luis Cordoba, of the archaeological rescue direction of the National Institute of Anthropology and Mexico History.

The pits were about 1.7 metres deep and 25 metres in diameter.

The institute said hunters may have chased mammoths into the traps. Remains of two other species that disappeared in the Americas — a horse and a camel — were also found.

 

Photo: EPA-EFE/Jose Mendez

Discovery of the world's first artificial trap to hunt mammoths

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