Early Americans ate tons of mammoth, 13,000-year-old bones from Clovis culture baby reveal

An illustration of early humans gathered around a fire preparing mammoth meat.

Early Indigenous Americans relied heavily on meat from mammoths to survive, according to a new study, which suggests they were top-notch experts at hunting the massive beasts.

The findings, reported in a study published Wednesday (Dec. 4) in the journal Science Advances, are based on chemical analyses of the bones of an 18-month-old boy — dubbed Anzick-1 — who lived almost 13,000 years ago in what is now Montana.