What this evidence does is for the first time shows us how they might have tackled one of these big beasts and the fact that they were almost certainly doing it routinely is important, getting two sets of fossil footprints that interact, that show you the behavioral ecology, is very, very rare.

Matthew Bennett

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[children] do silly things they dance around, they run around, they dont walk economically in one direction, it makes statistical sense that we should be finding lots of childrens footprints.

Matthew Bennett

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Its a group of individuals exploring a cave, which is cool, but w... by Matthew Bennett

Its a group of individuals exploring a cave, which is cool, but we knew that anyway.

Matthew Bennett

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The story that we can read from the tracks is that the humans were stalking; following in the footsteps, precisely in the footsteps of the sloth, while it was being distracted and turning, somebody else would come across and try and deliver the killer blow. It's an interesting story and it's all written in the footprints.

Matthew Bennett

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The peopling of North America is one of those things that has been for many years very contentious and a lot of archeologists hold views with almost religious zeal, one of the problems is that there is very few data points.

Matthew Bennett

It's the first unequivocal site and a good data point that places people in the American southwest around the last glacial maximum.

Matthew Bennett