What Native Americans Actually Ate Before Europeans Came

For Native Americans, putting dinner on the table was a terrifying, oftentimes death-defying, and always full-time job. While many of their foods aren't even around anymore, others have cropped up as trendy new dining options. This is what Native Americans ate every day before Europeans came.

While the Clovis likely weren't the first people to set foot on American soil, they were responsible for some of the earliest settlements, and they were such good hunters they've been blamed for the mass extinction of one of their favorite meals: The mammoth.

The rise of the Clovis does coincide with the downfall of the mammoths, along with other Pleistocene megafauna. Bones found across 19 Clovis sites suggest that while they were eating a lot of mammoth, they were also eating bison, mastodon, deer, rabbits, and caribou.

Their diet depended greatly on what was nearby, and megafauna seems to be the overwhelming preference. Clovis hunters in Mexico stalked the gomphotheres. As seen from this small section of a gomphothere jaw, they were massive, elephant-like creatures. They also went extinct during this period. In the far north they hunted something even more surprising: Camels. Camels roamed wide sections of what's now Canada, until the Clovis likely hunted them to extinction.

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The Clovis | 0:00
The Folsom | 1:03
The Plano | 2:04
The Yurok | 2:55
Poverty Point | 3:42
The Anasazi | 4:32
The Hopewell | 5:45
The Oneota | 6:41
The Fort Walton Culture | 7:37
The Cahokia | 8:32
The Pueblo | 9:19

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