New discoveries from several archaeological sites in North and South America suggest that ancient people first arrived in the New World much earlier than scientists once thought.

  • Krackalot@discuss.tchncs.de
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    I was gonna say that this can’t be new. I just saw a show on one of the history channel channels about the clovis people who lived side by side with mastodon and giant sloths. Of course, it’s just like the history channel to take something someone said with little or no evidence and make a show about it as if it were fact.

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      Well the clovis people were likely a significant factor in the extinction of most of North America’s megafauna and only arrived relatively shortly before the end of the ice age.

      What we are talking about is that they’re is mounting evidence of significantly older human activity(instead of 10-16k, we’re talking 40-100k)

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      Oh wow I didn’t realize the history channel was still going. I hadn’t seen it there, probably just articles on Lemmy. May have been mentioned by Stefan Milo- an archeologist I watch on Nebula- but I could be misremembering.