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Science 16 June 1978:
Vol. 200. no. 4347, pp. 1275 - 1277
DOI: 10.1126/science.200.4347.1275
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An El Jobo Mastodon Kill at Taima-taima, Venezuela

ALAN L. BRYAN 1, RODOLFO M. CASAMIQUELA 2, JosÉ M. CRUXENT 3, RUTH GRUHN 4, and CLAUDIO OCHSENIUS 5

1 Department of Anthropology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada T6G 2H4
2 Centro de Investigaciones Cientificas, Provincia de Rio Negro, Viedma, Rio Negro, Argentina
3 Departamento de Antropologia, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Cientificas, Apartado 1827, Caracas
4 Department of Anthropology, University of Alberta
5 Centro de Investigaciones del Paleoindio y Cuaternario Sudamericano, Apartado 7482, Coro, Falcón, Venezuela

Excavation at Taima-taima in 1976 recovered artifacts of the El Jobo complex in direct association with the butchered remains of a juvenile mastodon. Radiocarbon dates on associated wood twigs indicate a minimum age of 13,000 years before the present for the mastodon kill, a dating significantly older than that of the Clovis complex in North America. The El Jobo complex must have evolved independently in northern South America.

Submitted on December 14, 1977


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