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Approximately twelve thousand years ago, a group of
nomads known as the Clovis People roamed North
America hunting woolly mammoths with stone-tipped
spears.

Archaeologists know this from artifacts found in
excavations all across the continent. But there is no
written history from that time, so scientists can only
guess how they lived.

Perhaps the Clovis hunters watched and learned from the
wolves how to work together as a “pack” to bring down
an animal much larger than they were. Living in small
groups of about twenty people, the Clovis would be
smart to follow the wolves’ example.

One mammoth could provide food for months, as well as hide for shelter and bone for tools.

This is the story of Zol, a Clovis boy. He lived at a time when beavers were as big as bears. When the
scream of a sabre-toothed tiger could still pierce the night. When a moving mountain of hair could
suddenly block out the sun.

This was the time of mammoths.

This was the Ice Age.