Humans in America 100,000 years before previously known

[Legend]

Paleontologists have dug up a 130,000-year-old mastodon skeleton that looks like it was butchered by humans. But they found it in America, where people were not supposed to have arrived for another 100,000 years. Findings could upend our understanding of human history. : science


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Wow that could change a lot of things if true.

[darkknightkryta]

The reddit chat turned into a job hunt workshop...

[nnodley]

That would be crazy!

[Raven]

A part of me really wants to find out that there were people in American before the "Native Americans" and that they came over and took it all from them.

[nnodley]

A part of me really wants to find out that there were people in American before the "Native Americans" and that they came over and took it all from them.

Wouldn't that be a hilarious twist to history!  

[Dr. Pezus]

A part of me really wants to find out that there were people in American before the "Native Americans" and that they came over and took it all from them.

Lol. Would be huge

[DD_Bwest]

really cool,  i wonder if its yet a whole new early homo,  

[Raven]

really cool,  i wonder if its yet a whole new early homo,  

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[Legend]

really cool,  i wonder if its yet a whole new early homo,  

I Love learning about the different humans back then. It would have been like living with aliens.

ANother group would have been cool.

[darkknightkryta]

I'm curious about our origins too.  I was always of the mind that the land bridge wasn't possible to bring people over here.  Until I looked at a relatively scaled map.

[the-pi-guy]

really cool,  i wonder if its yet a whole new early homo,  

Whole new levels of homo!  

I Love learning about the different humans back then. It would have been like living with aliens.

ANother group would have been cool.

Same.  My anthropology class was one of my favorites.  

[Kerotan]

If this is true then it changes things.  We know Europeans crossed the Atlantic the last ice age about 10-15k years ago.  But if there were much older humans there they either integrated,  got killed or killed them.  

I wonder are the south American and North American aborigines from different periods?