Tanto las excavaciones estratifigraficas recien interpretadas como las determinaciones directas de AMS C llevadas a cabo en los huesos de mastodonte procedentes de Big Bone Lick, Kentucky, indican que la megafauna es un palimpsesto de fosiles que abarcan por 1o menos unos 1200 anos civiles (11,020 30 to 12,210 35 RC anos a.p.). La contemporaneidad de los seres humanos y el mastodonte americano (Mammut ameficanum) en Big Bone Lick, Kentucky, ha sido extensamente debatida por rods de doscientos anos. The radiocarbon evidence indicates that mastodons and Clovis people overlapped in time however, other than one fossil with a possible cut mark and Clovis artifacts that are physically associated with but dispersed within the bone-bearing deposits, there is no incontrovertible evidence that humans hunted Mammut americanum at the site. Newly interpreted stratigraphic excavations and direct AMS C measurements on mastodon bones from Big Bone Lick, Kentucky, indicate that the megafauna are a palimpsest of fossils spanning at least 1,200 calendar years (11,020 30 to 12,210 35 RC yr B.P.).
Abstract : Contemporaneity of people and the American mastodon (Mammut americanum) at Big Bone Lick, Kentucky, has been extensively debated for more than two hundred years.