EARLIEST AMERICAN ART: MAMMOTH ON MAMMOTH

Deberry, Willie

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The first known art object from America is a 13,000-year-old carving of a mammoth on mammoth bone.Researchers believe the object, found in Florida, dates to at least 13,000 years ago when most

large Pleistocene animals went extinct in the eastern United States. The artifact may even be up to 20,000 years old.The engraving was done by a group of people that we would refer to as Paleoindian or Paleoamericans or you could say earliest inhabitants of the Americas.