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Naco Mammoth Kill Site ... Excavated In 1952 ... First To
Associate Clovis Weapons With Remains Of A Mammoth Kill.
The Naco Mammoth Kill Site is
an archaeological site in southeast
Arizona, near Naco, Arizona.
The site was reported to the
Arizona State Museum in
September 1951 by Marc
Navarrete, a local resident, after
his father found two Clovis points
in Greenbush Draw, while digging
out the fossil bones of a
mammoth.
Emil Haury excavated the Naco
mammoth site in April 1952.
In only five days, Haury recovered
the remains of a Columbian
Mammoth that had been killed by
the use of at least 8 Clovis points
about 10,000 years ago.
The Naco site was the first Clovis
mammoth kill association to be
identified.
References
“National Register Information
System”. National Register of
Historic Places. National Park
Service. 2009-03-13. http://
www.nr.nps.gov/.
Emil Haury at Ventana Cave, Naco,
and Lehner Ranch, Department of
Anthropology, University of
Arizona
· Haury, Emil W. (1953) “Artifacts
with Mammoth Remains, Naco ,
Arizona : Discovery of the Naco
Mammoth and the Associated
Projectile Points”. American
Antiquity 19:1-14.
· Haury, Emil W., E. B. Sayles, and
William W. Wasley, 1986, “The
Lehner Mammoth Site
Southeastern Arizona”. In Emil W.
Haury’s Prehistory of the American
Southwest, edited by J. Jefferson
Reid and David E. Doyel, pp. 99–
145. University of Arizona Press,
Tucson.
Emil Haury (right) at Naco mammoth kill site, 1952. (Photos courtesy Arizona State Museum)
A Clovis point “in situ” amidst mammoth bones at the Naco site, 1952
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