When scientists recently dug up fossilized bones of a species of megafauna by a riverbank in Argentina, they found something even more fascinating than the remnants of this glyptodont. On those bones they found the type of cut marks not inflicted by other animals but by stone tools, in the process of primitive butchering. This would put human presence in the area at 21,000 years ago – some 5,000 years before people were thought to have settled in the Americas, according to most estimates.Continue ReadingCategory: Biology, ScienceTags: Hunting, Human, History, Fossils, Bones, Paleontology

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