There is Evidence of Pre-Clovis Humans Hunting Megafauna in South America

Pre-historic humans used spears and clubs to kill every species of megafauna that lived in South America during the Late Pleistocene. Scientists found compelling evidence at the Taima-Taima site in Venezuela that humans killed at least 5 species of megafauna there. Remains of notiomastodon (Notiomastodon platansis) were the most common butchered animal found here, but scientists also identified butchered remains of toxodon (probably mixotoxodon), macrauchenia, glossotherium, and glyptotherium here. They found 5 skulls of glyptodonts apparently bashed in by humans. Although glyptodonts were difficult for predatory mammals to kill, all humans had to do was walk right up to them with a club and smash their brains in. (Some big cats learned how to kill glyptodonts–at least 1 glyptodont specimen has been found with canine puncture hole marks on the skull.) The other animals on the list were more safely killed with spears from a distance. Location of the Taima Taima site in Venezuela. It…