cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/43462600

This map shows the spread of Homo sapiens out of Africa and across the globe, with very approximate dates.

Author: Altaileopard in 2006

very approximate dates

North America has evidence of humans 131,000 years ago.

https://www.sci.news/archaeology/cerutti-mastodon-site-humans-north-america-04815.html

Interesting that they repeatedly use the word "hominims" and not "humans." The point being that hominims includes all species of humans and chimpanzees.

So, they're talking about any of a number of possible human species (there were six as recently as 50Kyrs ago) and possibly even some very clever chimps.

Technically prehistory but OK.

Would be interesting to have an update. There's been a lot of new discoveries in the last 20 years.

It’s only very recently seen other great apes enter the Stone Age.

So this is either humans, or a now-extinct species, I guess?

Well, they specifically said "hominims," which has a tight definition that I explained above.

Cerutti is heavily debated and most serious discussions of humans in the americas ignore it. The supposed association with stone tools fails to convince most archaeologists. A mastadon died there 130kya. That's all cerutti can prove.

Last i heard most experts think the bones were broken by modern construction equipment not ancient hominins.