New research suggests that the first widespread human cultures in the Americas were not opportunistic foragers who ate whatever they could find, but specialized big-game hunters who built their lives around killing the largest animals on the landscape: mammoths, elephant-like gomphotheres, giant ground sloths, and other Ice Age giants.

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