Mammoths were, in terms of the caloric and material resources they provided, the largest possible prey animal in the Beringian landscape.

A single mammoth carcass provided an enormous quantity of meat, fat, bone, ivory, and hide — enough to sustain a group of people for weeks or months.

The hunting or scavenging of mammoths, if it occurred, would have been a major economic event with major implications for the subsistence strategy of the people who accomplished it.

The evidence for human-mammoth interaction in other parts of the world — Europe, where both Neanderthals and modern humans exploited mammoths, and Siberia, where numerous sites document human use of mammoth resources — makes it a priori plausible that the people of eastern Beringia also exploited mammoths.

The absence of compelling modification evidence from the Bluefish Caves mammoth specimens does not preclude this possibility; it simply means that if it happened at Bluefish Caves, the evidence has not yet been conclusively demonstrated.