This palaeopathological analysis is the first for Colombian megafauna, and thereby broadens our knowledge of the health conditions of South American gomphotheres. Se admite como probable que la extincin, hace slo 10.000 a 8.000 aos, de la ltima especie, Mammut americanum, cuyos fsiles han sido encontrados tanto en Norteamrica, como en Sudamrica, fuera acelerada por la caza practicada por los primeros pobladores humanos de Amrica. Excessive biomechanical loading on already weakened bones from locomotion through the uneven, upland terrain of the Anolaima region may have contributed to the pathologies. Osteological anomalies in the Anolaima gomphothere are interpreted as the result of nutritional deficiencies in essential minerals caused by environmental stresses, possibly related to the palaeoenvironmental instability that characterized the late Pleistocene and that coincides with the age of the fossils. Diet, behaviour, ecological aspects, selective pressures, and disease have the potential to affect the bones, so the study of individual variations and palaeopathology provides important information for understanding aspects of the life of extinct organisms. Cientficos estadounidenses revelaron que los antepasados de los indios, que se asentaron en el Nuevo Mundo hace 15.000-16.000 aos, fueron responsables de la extincin de los mastodontes y. The preserved bones exhibit a range of alterations, including porosities, piercings, hollows, and deep bone lesions on the spinous process and the neural arch asymmetrical zygapophyseal articulations and osteoarthritic lesions. Cuando las condiciones climáticas empeoraron, hace unos 75.000 años, el mastododonte desapareció de la zona. Six vertebrae (one cervical, three articulated thoracic, and two lumbar) and an incomplete thoracic neural spine from a new late Pleistocene site at Anolaima, Cundinamarca, Colombia, are attributed to the extinct gomphothere (Elephantoidea, Proboscidea) Notiomastodon platensis.
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