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.
Bro, coexisting with giant sloths and mastodons sounds pretty fucking cool not going to lie.
Giant sloths were terrifying. Built like a tank and had hands strong enough to claw through literal bedrock to make their caves.
Why don’t we do that?
“Coexisted” with giant sloths and mastodons? Nah, now we’ve just got a better idea of what caused their extinction.
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.
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
When is the Netflix series please?
Not Netflix but pbs has a YouTube channel for shit like this called “eons”. Pretty good ~10 min videos about paleontolgy, archeology, pre-history etc.
Stefan Milo on youtube is also a great channel on discussing these types of papers
There are already two seasons. It’s called “Ancient Apocalypse.”
Makes sense. There is evidence that 21k years ago there were people in Argentina eating basically anything that moved
