An unknown species of humans lived in America 130,000 years ago

[staarker]

The conventional view is that the first humans arrived in America about 15,000 years ago, crossing from Asia via a land bridge that existed where the Bering Strait is now.

However, some recent evidence suggests that an unknown human species may have lived in California about 130,000 years ago. In 1992, while repairing a freeway in Southern California, workers found a large collection of ancient bones, including those of mastodons, prehistoric relatives of mammoths.

This site, which was named Cerutti Mastodon, was investigated by archaeologists and excavated. In 2017, they analyzed the bones of a mastodon that showed signs of being “processed” with tools.

Next to these bones, they found stone artifacts that had been shaped by human hands, such as hammerstones and anvils.

Archaeologists have long recognized that the ancient Native Americans were skilled at hunting mastodons. But previous finds were dated to 15,000 years ago, and these were dated to about 130,000 years ago!

To put this in perspective – in that era, modern humans were still evolving in Africa and had not yet started to migrate and colonize other continents. Neanderthals and some other archaic human groups lived in Europe.

The stone artifacts show clear evidence of modification, and the bones of mastodons show marks where these artifacts were used. Based on the many broken bones, it seems that the ancient people used tools to extract bone marrow from bones.

https://anomalien.com/an-unknown-specie ... years-ago/

[jasmine]

No evidence of humans has been recovered on the site and the assumption that the human species were living in America about 130K years ago based on the bones of Mastodon looks a little naive to me. However, I believe in a theory that says human species evolved in different places in different times as opposed to the theory that says humans evolve din Africa and they migrated else where.