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Science 4 September 1981:
Vol. 213. no. 4512, pp. 1115 - 1117
DOI: 10.1126/science.213.4512.1115
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Kimmswick: A Clovis-Mastodon Association in Eastern Missouri

RUSSELL W. GRAHAM 1, C. VANCE HAYNES 2, DONALD LEE JOHNSON 3, and MARVIN KAY 4

1 Illinois State Museum, Springfield 62706
2 Department of Anthropology, University of Arizona, Tucson 85721
3 Department of Geography, University of Illinois, Urbana 61801
4 Department of Anthropology, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville 72701

Stone tools characteristic of the Clovis culture have been found in direct association with bones of the American mastodon at Kimmswick, Missouri. The vertebrate fauna from Clovis components suggests a deciduous woodland and meadow habitat. Such an environmental reconstruction provides a new perspective for Clovis adaptations and the ecological tolerances of Mammut americanum.

Submitted on February 20, 1981
Revised on June 1, 1981

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