Naia and the gomphotheres at the bottom of Hoyo Negro were contemporaries.

The large animals whose extinction event would reshape the Americas were still alive, still walking the landscape that Naia walked, when she died in the cave.

This does not mean that Naia personally hunted gomphotheres or that she was involved in their extinction.

There is no evidence of human-animal interaction in the Hoyo Negro deposit — no tool marks on the animal bones, no evidence of hunting or butchery within the chamber.

The animals and the human fell into the same pit trap independently, at times that may have been separated by years or centuries even if they are all dated to the same broad period.