Evidence for Human Involvement in Extinction of Megafauna in the Late Pleistocene (2 of 9) (IMAGE)

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Evidence for Human Involvement in Extinction of Megafauna in the Late Pleistocene (2 of 9)

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Lithic tool (biface). This material relates to a paper that appeared in the March 6th, 2019, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by G.G. Politis at INCUAPA-CONICET in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and colleagues was titled, "Campo Laborde: A Late Pleistocene giant ground sloth kill and butchering site in the Pampas."

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[Credit: Gustavo Politis and Pablo Messineo]

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