New discoveries from several archaeological sites in North and South America suggest that ancient people first arrived in the New World much earlier than scientists once thought.
New discoveries from several archaeological sites in North and South America suggest that ancient people first arrived in the New World much earlier than scientists once thought.
Seems like every 6 months there’s a claim like this that gets media attention and then gets disproven later.
I don’t care either way, just think it’s kinda funny.
Sorry, disproven? As far as I am aware(layman), the claims have only been disproven by evidence pushing it further back.
One of the chief problems I am aware of is that the places they inhabited and the coastal path they likely took is now under a considerable amount of ocean.
That and the Americas have changed quite a bit since those ancient times. Even mild environmental shifts can cause a shit tonne of damage to evidence, and if their population was spread out and small enough said evidence couldve been sparce already.
I was gonna say that this can’t be new. I just saw a show on one of the history channel channels about the clovis people who lived side by side with mastodon and giant sloths. Of course, it’s just like the history channel to take something someone said with little or no evidence and make a show about it as if it were fact.
Well the clovis people were likely a significant factor in the extinction of most of North America’s megafauna and only arrived relatively shortly before the end of the ice age.
What we are talking about is that they’re is mounting evidence of significantly older human activity(instead of 10-16k, we’re talking 40-100k)
Oh wow I didn’t realize the history channel was still going. I hadn’t seen it there, probably just articles on Lemmy. May have been mentioned by Stefan Milo- an archeologist I watch on Nebula- but I could be misremembering.
There are a ton of history channel channels on my smart tvs free programming.
https://youtu.be/5z3DbmOuaFI