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posted by chromas on Friday July 24 2020, @05:05AM   Printer-friendly

Earliest humans stayed at the Americas 'oldest hotel' in Mexican cave:

A cave in a remote part of Mexico was visited by humans around 30,000 years ago—15,000 years earlier than people were previously thought to have reached the Americas.

Painstaking excavations of Chiquihuite Cave, located in a mountainous area in northern Mexico controlled by drugs cartels, uncovered nearly 2000 stone tools from a small section of the high-altitude cave.

Archaeological analysis of the tools and DNA analysis of the sediment in the cave uncovered a new story of the colonisation of the Americas which now traces evidence of the first Americans back to 25,000-30,000 years ago.

[...] "For decades people have passionately debated when the first humans entered the Americas. Chiquihuite Cave will create a lot more debate as it is the first site that dates the arrival of people to the continent to around 30,000 years ago—15,000 years earlier than previously thought. These early visitors didn't occupy the cave continuously, we think people spent part of the year there using it as a winter or summer shelter, or as a base to hunt during migration. This could be the Americas oldest ever hotel."

The find provides more evidence to challenge the accepted theory that the Clovis people were the earliest in the Americas 15,000 years ago.

Journal Reference:
Ciprian F. Ardelean, Lorena Becerra-Valdivia, Mikkel Winther Pedersen, et al. Evidence of human occupation in Mexico around the Last Glacial Maximum [$], Nature (DOI: 10.1038/s41586-020-2509-0)


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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by c0lo on Friday July 24 2020, @07:47AM (4 children)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Friday July 24 2020, @07:47AM (#1025698) Journal

    "Oh but they had a hotel in this cave" seems to be an assertion that would be even more difficult to prove.

    Subpoena AirBnB records.

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  • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday July 24 2020, @07:58AM (3 children)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Friday July 24 2020, @07:58AM (#1025699) Journal

    That would be RockBnB, I think.

    • (Score: 5, Funny) by Pslytely Psycho on Friday July 24 2020, @10:00AM (2 children)

      by Pslytely Psycho (1218) on Friday July 24 2020, @10:00AM (#1025709)

      No, no, no...it's STONEBNB, it was the stone age, the rock age began on 02/09/1964 when the Beatles premiered on the Ed Sullivan show...

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      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 24 2020, @03:25PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 24 2020, @03:25PM (#1025810)

        Discomfort Inn

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 24 2020, @06:29PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 24 2020, @06:29PM (#1025879)

        The Rock age began in the 50. Some point to Bill Haley and Comets, Rock Around the Clock as the first major hit that defines the era. Some even reach back to Hank Williams, Move it on Over but that's a bit of a stretch as Williams was always classified as Country.

        The Beatles didn't start rock. Some say they revived it, although we have no way of knowing if some other new sound wouldn't have arrived to keep it going.

        As an old fart, it seems like rock kind of ended with Nirvana, although there were a few good bands after that. New rock is still being played, but there's so much pop and hip-hop out there that it kind of seems like the era is over.