Woolly huge traps full of skeleton found in Mexico

Mexican anthropologists contend they have found dual human-built pits dug 15,000 years ago to trap mammoths.

Researchers from Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History pronounced Wednesday a pits were found during excavations on land that was to be used as a rubbish dump.

The pits filled with skeleton from during slightest 14 mammoths were found in a community of Tultepec, only north of Mexico City. Some of a animals were apparently butchered.

The pits were about 1.70 metres deep and 25 metres in diameter. The hospital pronounced hunters might have chased mammoths into a traps. Remains of dual other class that left in a Americas — a equine and a camel — were also found.

It was misleading if skeleton for a dump would proceed.

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