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> Humans in Mexico: 33,000–31,000 years ago
>
> Evidence of human occupation in Mexico around the
> Last Glacial Maximum
> Abstract:
>
>
> The initial colonization of the Americas remains a
> highly debated topic, and the exact timing of the
> first arrivals is unknown. The earliest
> archaeological record of Mexico—which holds a key
> geographical position in the Americas—is poorly
> known and understudied. Historically, the region
> has remained on the periphery of research focused
> on the first American populations. However, recent
> investigations provide reliable evidence of a
> human presence in the northwest region of Mexico,
> the Chiapas Highlands, Central Mexico6 and the
> Caribbean coast during the Late Pleistocene and
> Early Holocene epochs. Here we present results of
> recent excavations at Chiquihuite Cave—a
> high-altitude site in central-northern Mexico—that
> corroborate previous findings in the
> Americas10–17of cultural evidence that dates to
> the Last Glacial Maximum (26,500–19,000 years
> ago)18, and which push back dates for human
> dispersal to the region possibly as early as
> 33,000–31,000 years ago.
>
> The site yielded about 1,900 stone artefacts
> within a 3-m-deep stratified sequence, revealing a
> previously unknown lithic industry that underwent
> only minor changes over millennia. More than 50
> radiocarbon and luminescence dates provide
> chronological control, and genetic,
> palaeoenvironmental and chemical data document the
> changing environments in which the occupants
> lived. Our results provide new evidence for the
> antiquity of humans in the Americas, illustrate
> the cultural diversity of the earliest dispersal
> groups (which predate those of the Clovis culture)
> and open new directions of research.
>
> [www.abovetopsecret.com]


A similar situation to chiquihuite lots of stone tools, no human remains and date that is 30,000 'too old'.

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/10/2020 02:06PM by Hans.