30,000 years in South America?

[oldarchystudent]

And this from Archaeology Magazine, no less...

http://archaeology.org/news/1537-131120 ... tion-sloth

"MONTEVIDEO, URUGUAY—Paleontologists have unearthed more than 1,000 fossils from a bone bed at Arroyo del Vizcaíno in southern Uruguay. Many of the bones, which date to 29,000 to 30,000 years old, are remains of three extinct species of giant ground sloth. Some of these sloth bones bear marks that could have been made by tool-wielding human hunters."

[Ernie L]

yeah..dats right..it was dem humans wot did that

[Minimalist]

The fossils found at Arroyo del Vizcaíno might simply be a product of nature mimicking human tools, and the authors acknowledge that possibility.

Ah yes...because "nature" has been known to do that just to screw with us!

[hardaker]

Thanks for the post. Pretty interesting, and Nat. Geog. also posted it. If it was stone tool marks, there should be itsy bitsy bits in the grooves, hopefully anyway.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news ... lose-modal
Sure is on same temporal par as Monte Verde 2, and some Brazillian sites.