Public Release: 30-Aug-2017
Human settlement in the Americas may have occurred in the late Pleistocene
Researchers dated the skeletal remains, stalagmite found in Tulum cave
Analysis of a skeleton found in the Chan Hol cave near Tulum, Mexico suggests human settlement in the Americas occurred in the late Pleistocene era, according to a study published August 30, 2017 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Wolfgang Stinnesbeck from Universität Heidelberg, Germany, and colleagues.
Scientists have long debated about when humans first settled in the Americas. While osteological evidence of early settlers is fragmentary, researchers have previously discovered and dated well-preserved prehistoric human skeletons in caves in Tulum in Southern Mexico.
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-08/p-hsi082317.php
