There's only 5 explanations for the broken bones at the Cerutti mastodon site:>Carnivores breaking themNo carnivore in the environment was powerful enough to break a mastodon femur mid-shaft, and the patterns of breakage are consistent with percussion, not gnawing.>Animals trampling themTrampling from animals leaves a certain pattern which is absent from the site, plus a majority of the weaker bones aren't broken.>A flood breaking themGiven that there's no size, shape, or density separation of the bones and rocks, this precludes flooding being involved (small teeth that should be washed down stream a mile away are right next to entire tusks and heavy boulders). It also wouldn't make sense for a flood powerful enough to shatter rocks and break mastodon femurs to not also break the weaker bones.>Construction breaking themThis can't be for a few reasons, mainly because the bones were encased in a layer of unbroken pedogenic carbonate (If a machine broke the bones it would also break the pedogenic carbonate), and because shards of the bones were found far away from the bones themselves (which would be impossible for the shards to travel that far underground).Is there anything I'm missing? Doesn't this leave hominins as the only option, thus indisputably proving they were in the Americas at least 130K years ago?
>>16481526they probably just fell from a cliff.
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https://www.nature.com/articles/nature22065
>>16481526>Is there anything I'm missing? Doesn't this leave hominins as the only option, thus indisputably proving they were in the Americas at least 130K years ago?It’s fairly likely, but it’d need more evidence. Most people generally agree that it’s not unlikely to be a human kill site
>>16484258>It’s fairly likely, but it’d need more evidenceWhy though? There's literally no other explanation for how the bones were broken.
>>16484508Not having any other explanation doesn’t necessarily mean no more evidence is needed. Some other factor could have been involved that was overlooked. It seems pretty likely that it was hominins but we can’t say that for certain yet
>>16481526it was bigfoot. case closed
>>16483646>These findings confirm the presence of an unidentified species of Homo at the CM site during the last interglacial period (MIS 5e; early late Pleistocene), indicating that humans with manual dexterity and the experiential knowledge to use hammerstones and anvils processed mastodon limb bones for marrow extraction and/or raw material for tool production.So its confirmed that humans were in the Americas over 100,000 years before asians supposedly crossed the Bering land bridge.
>>16487234They still would’ve had to cross the land bridge to get there whether or not more people crossed over later though
>>16487407Whites used boats to cross the ocean to America
