[Rockhounds] Do Prehistoric Footprints Preserve Terminal Pleistocene Ground Sloth Hunt? (New Mexico)

[Paul]

Fossil footprints ‘unique in the world’ show a human chasing
a giant sloth By Ben Guarino, Washington Post, April 25, 2018
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2018/04/25/humans-stalked-giant-sloths-ancient-footprints-at-white-sands-national-monument-show/

How to hunt a giant sloth – according to ancient human
footprints, the Conversation, April 26, 2018
http://theconversation.com/how-to-hunt-a-giant-sloth-according-to-ancient-human-footprints-95344

David Bustos, Jackson Jakeway, Tommy M. Urban, Vance T. Holliday,
Brendan Fenerty, David A. Raichlen, Marcin Budka, Sally C.
Reynolds, Bruce D. Allen, David W. Love, Vincent L. Santucci,
Daniel Odess, Patrick Willey, H. Gregory McDonald, and Matthew R.
Bennett, 2018, Footprints preserve terminal Pleistocene hunt?
Human-sloth interactions in North America. Science Advances
25 Apr 2018: Vol. 4, no. 4, eaar7621 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aar7621
http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/4/4/eaar7621

Yours,

Paul H.

" --and some rin up hill and down dale,
knapping the chucky stanes to pieces wi' hammers,
like sae mony road-makers run daft.
they say it is to see how the warld was made!"

["St. Ronan's Well" Chapter 2, Sir Walter Scott, 1824]
http://www.online-literature.com/walter_scott/st-ronans-well/2/