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Stone tools and bones from a butchered mastodon, found at the bottom of a river in Florida, are shaking up the known history of humans in the region.
A four-year investigation of the site has firmly concluded that humans lived there and, in particular, made a meal of a mastodon 14,550 years ago.
This is more than a millennium earlier than humans were thought to have settled the south-eastern US.
They reinforce the idea that humans settled the Americas well before the Clovis people arrived about 13,000 years ago. For many years, the Clovis were thought to have been "the first Americans".
... more evidence accumulates that humans arrived thousands of years earlier - perhaps as early as 16,000 years ago, when the last ice age was only beginning to thaw.
(I read somewhere a few years ago that humans may have come to North America from Europe, before those who came from Asia)
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-36286548
Wounded Bear
(58,670 posts)thanks for the link!
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)... but God told them the Earth is only 6,000 years old.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)I'd never be that early if I was in Florida.
Recursion
(56,582 posts)and was trampled to death.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)One of the earliest examples of "hold my palm wine and watch this"..........
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)Maybe they purchased a Florida cave for their retirement years.
Socal31
(2,484 posts)I'm just not feeling creative enough tonight.
librarylu
(503 posts)Apparently Siberian style points have been found in North America. Or maybe they're from France.
http://www.viewzone.com/solutrean.html
I do hope the above isn't some kind of Forbidden Archeology site.
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)I recall seeing a story on that some years ago.