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posted by martyb on Friday April 28 2017, @11:47AM   Printer-friendly
from the shoulda-made-a-left-at-Albuquerque dept.

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-39710311

A study that claims humans reached the Americas 130,000 years ago - much earlier than previously suggested - has run into controversy.

Humans are thought to have arrived in the New World no earlier than 25,000 years ago, so the find would push back the first evidence of settlement by more than 100,000 years.

The conclusions rest on analysis of animal bones and tools from California.

But many experts contacted by the BBC said they doubted the claims.


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  • (Score: 2) by AthanasiusKircher on Friday April 28 2017, @05:04PM

    by AthanasiusKircher (5291) on Friday April 28 2017, @05:04PM (#501228) Journal

    Well, there were pieces of mastodon in cracks of several of the stones.

    By the way, where are you getting that? TFA says only: "Rocks found alongside the mastodon remains show signs of wear and being struck against other surfaces, the researchers say." If what you said is true (and animal fragments were actually embedded in the stones), that's a LOT stronger evidence than TFA suggests for tool use. Unless I missed it, TFA implies there were just rocks found in the same general area that looked like they had been hit against other hard things.

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