Humans Arrived in North America 37,000 Years Ago

Mammoth remains from old butchering site in New Mexico demonstrate that they were processed by humans 17,000 years earlier

The discovery¹ of adult mammoth and her calf bones at a 37,000-year-old butchering site in New Mexico raises the possibility that humans first arrived in North America 17,000 years earlier than previously thought. Collagen was removed from the bones by a group of researchers led by The University of Texas in Austin, enabling carbon dating to establish th…