Jaw-Dropping Study Says Some Human Relative Was in California 130,000 Years Ago
The evidence points to humans — or some relative — invading North America long before we thought.
Here's what we know: About 130,000 years ago, near modern-day San Diego, something or someone killed a mastodon. Whatever it was bludgeoned the creature's spine and jaw in a calculated fashion and harvested the bones for marrow and tool use. It sure looks like the kind of thing early humans would do.
There's a problem, though. At this time, humans had not left Africa—at least according to today's dominant narrative of human migration. And the earliest migration into North America that we know about occurred around 12,000 to 13,000 years ago. Yet in a paper published today in Nature, scientists put forth the idea that a mastodon was killed and its bone marrow harvested in a matter only possible by humans, in the broad sense of Homo erectus on up to Homo sapiens.
http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/archaeology/news/a26204/human-activity-california-130000-years-ago/
