130,000-Year-Old Mastodon Skeleton Suggests Humans Could Have Been in America 100,000 Years Before Previously Thought
Paleontologist Don Swanson from the San Diego Natural History Museum is seen pointing at a rock fragment near a large horizontal fragment of a mastodon tusk. Image credit: San Diego Natural History Museum
“I know people will be skeptical of this because it is so surprising and I was skeptical when I first looked at the material itself. But it’s definitely an archaeological site,” said Steven Holen of the Center for American Paleolithic Research in South Dakota.
“It appears to be impossible that a mastodon could somehow force its own tusk into the underlying deposits,” the research team noted in their report, published in the journal Nature. The only reasonable explanation appears to be that humans did it.
“I know people will be skeptical of this because it is so surprising and I was skeptical when I first looked at the material itself. But it’s definitely an archaeological site,” said Steven Holen of the Center for American Paleolithic Research in South Dakota.
“It appears to be impossible that a mastodon could somehow force its own tusk into the underlying deposits,” the research team noted in their report, published in the journal Nature. The only reasonable explanation appears to be that humans did it.
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18 August 2023
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