First settlers reached Americas 130,000 years ago, study claims

[rangerrebew]

First settlers reached Americas 130,000 years ago, study claims
Mastodon bones, stone tools place unknown Homo species in California surprisingly early
By
Bruce Bower
1:00pm, April 26, 2017
 

The New World was a surprisingly old destination for humans or our evolutionary relatives, say investigators of a controversial set of bones and stones.

An unidentified Homo species used stone tools to crack apart mastodon bones, teeth and tusks approximately 130,700 years ago at a site near what’s now San Diego. This unsettling claim upending the scientific debate over the settling of the Americas comes from a team led by archaeologist Steven Holen of the Center for American Paleolithic Research in Hot Springs, South Dakota, and paleontologist Thomas Deméré of the San Diego Natural History Museum. If true, it means the Cerutti Mastodon site contains the oldest known evidence, by more than 100,000 years, of human or humanlike colonists in the New World, the researchers report online April 26 in Nature.

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/first-settlers-reached-americas-130000-years-ago-study-claims?tgt=nr

[Smokin Joe]

Plausible. I found what looked like a well weathered blade core in Wyoming.

[Free Vulcan]

I wish these guys would get a clue about settled science, and that we don't question or investigate after the holy writ has been established.

[driftdiver]

So the American Indians owe reparations to whom?      Time to liquidate those casinos.