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Apparently human settlement in the Americas is now thought to date back 33,000 years
Of course there will be those who dispute this, but I always thought the Clovis story (arrived @11,500 years ago) seemed kind of recent.
Here's the first few lines of the BBC story:
Humans settled in the Americas much earlier than previously thought, according to new finds from Mexico.
They suggest people were living there 33,000 years ago, twice the widely accepted age for the earliest settlement of the Americas.
The results are based on work at Chiquihuite Cave, a high-altitude rock shelter in central Mexico.
Archaeologists found thousands of stone tools suggesting the cave was used by people for at least 20,000 years.
And here's the article in full:
Of course there will be those who dispute this, but I always thought the Clovis story (arrived @11,500 years ago) seemed kind of recent.
Here's the first few lines of the BBC story:
Humans settled in the Americas much earlier than previously thought, according to new finds from Mexico.
They suggest people were living there 33,000 years ago, twice the widely accepted age for the earliest settlement of the Americas.
The results are based on work at Chiquihuite Cave, a high-altitude rock shelter in central Mexico.
Archaeologists found thousands of stone tools suggesting the cave was used by people for at least 20,000 years.
And here's the article in full:
Earliest evidence for humans in the Americas
Humans settled in the Americas much earlier than previously thought, according to new finds from Mexico.
www.bbc.co.uk