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td12212.bsky.social • 64 days ago

🧪 fascinating!!

New research from several sites is starting to suggest that people came to the Americas earlier — perhaps far earlier — than once thought.

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budd1010.bsky.social•64 days ago

This is something I was taught in grade school. Why is it news now?

td12212.bsky.social•64 days ago

The berring straight spread theory said humans came here around 13000 years ago...this puts it much farther back....

budd1010.bsky.social•64 days ago

True. Although I thought the berring straight theory time line didn’t match up with with dating of other archaeological discoveries in the area.

td12212.bsky.social•64 days ago

I don't know. To my knowledge that 13k year dating was the accepted time line...I'm not an expert though...

unnamedscientist.bsky.social•64 days ago

There is an archeological site in western Pennsylvania that has yielded credible evidence of human presence dating as far back as 19,000 years. https://www.heinzhistorycenter.org/visit/meadowcroft

temstarlite.bsky.social•64 days ago

That is definitely cool. 🧬 Mastodons are fascinating for me, I think because Elephants are my favorite land animal.

l-who.bsky.social•64 days ago

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It makes so much sense. Brilliant!
With giant ground sloths (huge claws) weighing up to 4 tons. Mastodons, saber toothed cats and dior wolves once roamed North and South America. Yes, fascinating!

stonedtablet.bsky.social•64 days ago

I thought this had been known? Wasn’t there evidence of them hunting mammoths?

td12212.bsky.social•64 days ago

Yes...mammoths were around though for a long time...in north America they went extinct in about 10000 bc...the last mammoths died out in 2000 bc in Wrangel Island which is in the Chukchi sea, Siberia

lifesexyshabadadoo.bsky.social•64 days ago

I don't think "co-existed with" is the right phrase. They were breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

td12212.bsky.social•64 days ago

🤣😁

victorsforza77.bsky.social•64 days ago

I think the Vulcans came before us.. 😂😂😂

td12212.bsky.social•64 days ago

They might have. Eric Von Daniken thought they did.

victorsforza77.bsky.social•64 days ago

td12212.bsky.social•64 days ago

Yes....them 😁....they came in space ships and built the great pyramids and sphinx 🤣...
Jesus was an astronaut too 😁

jakemobley.bsky.social•64 days ago

It's hard to imagine being able to see a giant sloth in its heyday. This is incredibly cool!

td12212.bsky.social•64 days ago

True....I didn't know humans were the ones to wipe them out ..I would've thought climate change did it ...

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