An Ice Age paleontological-turned-archaeological site in San Diego excavated by Museum staff preserves 130,000-year-old mastodon bones, molars, and tusks that show evidence of modification by early humans. Analysis of these finds dramatically revises the timeline for when humans first reached the Americas, according to a paper scheduled to be published in the April 27 issue of the prestigious science journal Nature.
Click here to watch a recording of the press conference that took place at theNAT on Wednesday, April 26.
The full press kit is available on Dropbox here.
Visit our Paleontology project page to learn more about the discovery.
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