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Faunal Remains from the Lehner Mammoth Site*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

John F. Lance
John F. Lance*
Affiliation:
University of Arizona, Tucson, Ariz.
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Abstract

The Lehner site fauna includes at least nine individuals of Mammuthus columbi and one each of Equus, Bison, and Tapirus. Mammoth material consists chiefly of jaws and teeth and shows a great range of individual variation. The tapir is represented by one of the largest fossil tapir jaws described from North America. The accumulation is considered to represent several kills over a period of several months. Climate at the time of the Lehner hunts was probably more humid than at present, but not tropical. The radiocarbon date of about 11,000 B.P. is considered reasonable. New genera reported from other early man faunas are Neotoma from the Ventana complex and Bison from the Naco site.

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American Antiquity , Volume 25 , Issue 1 , July 1959 , pp. 35 - 42
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1959

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Footnotes

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Gratitude is expressed to Philip Hershkovitz, Chicago Natural History Museum, for the loan of comparative material. Preparation of the fossils for study was made possible by facilities provided with a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation to the Geochronology Laboratories of the University of Arizona.

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