Humans may have reached the Americas 22,000 years ago

Newscientist ^ | 4-25-2013 | Michael Marshall

[Renfield]

Humans lived in South America at the height of the last ice age, thousands of years earlier than we thought, according to a controversial study. A team claims to have found 22,000-year-old stone tools at a site in Brazil, though other archaeologists are disputing the claim.

Christelle Lahaye of Michel de Montaigne Bordeaux 3 University in France and colleagues excavated a rock shelter in north-east Brazil and found 113 stone tools.

The team dated the sediments in which the tools were buried using a technique that determines when the sediments were last exposed to light. Some tools were buried 22,000 years ago – thousands of years earlier than any known human colonisation of the Americas....

[Renfield]

Ping

[cripplecreek]

Some days I feel like I’ve been here at least that long.

[Jack Hammer]

Shhhhh. Don’t anybody tell the “Native” Americans.

[UCANSEE2]

22,000 years, and getting less civilized every day.

[Verginius Rufus]

Humans have been here for 22,000 years. And spent the first 21,850 years of that without football, baseball, televisions, margaritas, hot dogs, pizzas, cars, or high-speed internet.

[Tijeras_Slim]

They would have been earlier except for the FAA sequester delays.

[clearcarbon]

The land bridge was an ice bridge?

[SunkenCiv]

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[BenLurkin]

[Altariel]

For the last time, I wasn’t with them!

[ApplegateRanch]

And spent the first 21,850 years of that without football, baseball, televisions, margaritas, hot dogs, pizzas, cars, or high-speed internet.

OTOH, they didn't have to worry about Muslim terrorists, Chicago gangs, Afro-Indonesian presidents, or Democrats in general...with the possible exception of Helen Thomas.

[Makana]

Now those interloping “Native Peoples” owe some reparations. I’m heading to Mohegan Sun to collect. Whose with me!

[douginthearmy]

Whose with me!

Teh Uniun of Missed Pellers and Gramaticaly Chalengers!