The 24,000-Year-Old Bones Found In A Yukon Cave — And The Cut Marks That Pushed Humans In North America Farther Back In Time

The bones in the cold Yukon cave have more to say.

The only question is whether the people with the right questions and the right tools will be there to listen.

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The Bone-by-Bone Record of a Butchery Event

When the taphonomic analysis of the Bluefish Caves specimens is described at the level of individual bones, the story becomes considerably more vivid and considerably more concrete than any general description of “cut marks” can convey.

Consider the specific anatomical logic of the marks identified on the horse mandible — the fragment of horse jaw that produced the approximately 24,000-year date.