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Bianca: If the find holds up it will be quite interesting, yes. We do know for certain that humans encountered and hunted elephants in the Americas, both Mastedons and Mammoths. And archaeologist Michael Faught has found many Clovis points in Florida as well as in the waters around the currend coast--at 45+ feet below the current sea level--Clovis, or course, dates to 9600 BC or so, so it would not be surprising that an extinct elephant would have been depicted on an artifact like a bone. But as mssun implies, the chances are that someone will claim it's a hoax, though in this case there is nothing seemingly to be gained from either the hoax or the claim of one. Archaeology accepts that humans and extinct elephants had encountered each other in the early Americas.