Summer 2017, Featured Articles, Discoveries
The Extraordinary Case of the San Diego Mastodon
Wed, Jun 14, 2017
The in-depth story about the controversial discovery of a 130,000-year-old human presence in Southern California.
When news of the published study report in the prestigious scientific journal Nature broke, it became a bombshell headline for science media reporters. “Humans in California 130,000 years ago? Get the Facts,” flashed one widely read headline by National Geographic — “A 130,000-year-old archaeological site in southern California, USA,” reported the study abstract from Nature — “Ancient humans may have reached Americas 100,000 years earlier than thought,” posted USA Today. These were but a fraction of the published stories.
http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/summer-2017/section/discoveries
