Hunting the Hairy Mammoth (IMAGE)

Aarhus University

Hunting the Hairy Mammoth

Caption

Prehistoric humans hunt a woolly mammoth. More and more research shows that this species – and at least 46 other species of megaherbivores – were driven to extinction by humans.

Credit

Engraving by Ernest Grise, photographed by William Henry Jackson. Courtesy Getty's Open Content Program

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License

Public Domain

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