A Mastodon Carcass Could Totally Rewrite American History—But There’s Reason to Be Skeptical
26th April 2017
A new research letter published today in the journal Nature makes a startling claim that, if correct, will rewrite everything we know about how North America was populated.
But in the the words of its own author, Steven Holen, the evidence he and his colleagues discovered “went against everything I’ve ever taught in my career about early humans in North America.”
So clearly it’s reasonable to be skeptical. That’s why we’re breaking down the evidence in this special edition of CSI: Mastodon.
UPDATE: More here.