1. First Americans
... to grind cultivated corn. The shift in the eating habits of the early settlers has much to do with the disappearance of the mammoth and many other North American big-game animals. Between about 6000 and 12000 years ago - a time that saw the rise of the Clovis, Folsom and Plano hunters - more than a hundred species of mammals mysteriously became extinct in ... increasingly specialized tolls and techniques. Most forest dwellers had extensive kits of specialized gear - axes, drills, gauges and other woodworking tools of ground or chipped stone, fishhooks, harpoons, nets (for game and fowl ...
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