Mastodon discovery shakes up understanding of early humans in the New World
Wednesday, April 26, 2017 - 14:01
in Paleontology & Archaeology
An Ice Age site in San Diego, Calif., preserves 130,000-year-old bones and teeth of a mastodon that show evidence of modification by early humans. Analysis of these finds dramatically revises the timeline for when humans first reached North America, according to new research.