The Megafauna Mystery: What Clovis People Were Hunting

The large animals that Clovis people hunted — or at least some of them — are documented in direct associations between Clovis points and animal bones at kill sites across North America.

These associations provide some of the most specific evidence available for the actual behavior of Clovis people in a specific economic activity.

The mammoths and mastodons that appear most commonly in Clovis kill-site associations were genuinely enormous animals.

Woolly mammoths, the species most commonly associated with northern sites, could weigh up to six tons.