How Early Peoples of Latin America Interacted With Megafauna

How Early Peoples of Latin America Interacted With Megafauna

Approximately 11,000 years ago, in the Pleistocene epoch, humans began to enter present-day South America. There, they came face to face with the giants of their day—ground sloths over 20 feet long, armored glyptodonts the size of a car, and felines with foot-long teeth. Their close proximity meant that humans often came into direct contact with megafauna. In fact, some studies suggest that human hunting may have contributed to the extinction of…