Science & technology | Oh no! Not mammoth again!
Lots of hunting. Not much gathering. The diet of early Americans
What they ate is given away by the isotopes in their bodies
“Eat up your greens!” That injunction will be familiar to many readers from their childhood. But it would not, it transpires, have been heard much in Clovis households.
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