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.

  • @grue@lemmy.world
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    07 months ago

    “Coexisted” with giant sloths and mastodons? Nah, now we’ve just got a better idea of what caused their extinction.

    • @novibe@lemmy.ml
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      07 months ago

      Except no. We lived with them for over 10,000 years without them going extinct. When before we thought they went extinct right after we arrived, thus concluded we hunted them to extinction.

      But if we lived with them for thousands and thousands of years, that is very unlikely.

      • @iopq@lemmy.world
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        -17 months ago

        The original people of the Americas were not ancestors of the Native Americans Alice today so they either died off or left long before 13kya