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These sites help with the pre-clovis transition of human settlement in north America
Typically dated to around 13,000 years ago. Animal remains were inundated by waters of a long-dried-up lake, shortly after it was butchered.

Making bones well preserved. Fragments of two stone blades were also found in the remains, as well as butchering and cut marks

The Schaefer site, discovered on a farm in Kenosha County, contains remains of a mammoth that show signs of humans butchering. From around 13,000 years ago
Archaeologists found stone tools and evidence of human processing on the mammoth bones, such as cut marks. The radiocarbon dates suggest human activity earlier than the Clovis people.

The Hebior Site is located close to the Schaefer site. It is another site with the ancient remains of mammoth. That showed signs of butchering
The Hebior mammoth is particularly notable because it is almost a complete mammoth skeleton. That provides early signs of butchering and mammoth scavenging.

Did you know? The Hebior bones were dated 150-200 years before the Schaefer bones

Like other sites in the mid to late 1990s. These sites have shifted perspectives on human migration into the western hemisphere. Providing evidence humans entered earlier than previously believed. The Schaefer and Hebior sites help bridge a gap to the growing body of pre-Clovis in north America.

Bibliography:
mammoths at the museum. (n.d.). Retrieved November 10, 2021, from https://museums.kenosha.org/exhibits/mammoths-at-the-museum

America in the beginning -Schaefer and Hebior kill sites. (n.d.). Retrieved November 10, 2021, from https://archaeology.org/issues/september-october-2014/collection/peopling-the-americas-schaefer-hebior/america-in-the-beginning/

Butterbrodt & Joyce (2004). “Schaefer Site”. Friends of the Ice Age.