Mesoamerica keeps many secrets, the appearance of man is one of them …
Until now, the most ancient evidence of human presence in North America was objects 14 thousand years old. However, new finds made by Canadian researchers from the University of Montreal indicate that people were familiar with this continent 24 thousand years ago! These numbers are in good agreement with the data for South and Central America, where, according to new studies, humans appeared at least 36-30 thousand years ago …
During excavations in one of the caves in Canada in the Yukon region near the border with Alaska, scientists discovered a horse's jaw with scratches on the side of the tongue. According to scientists, these tracks were made when the animal's tongue was cut off with a stone tool.
The Bluefish Caves, located on the banks of the river of the same name, were first explored by the scientist Jacques Senc-Mar in 1977-1987. He carried out radiocarbon dating of animal bones found in the caves, which showed that they were about 30 thousand years old. The scientist suggested that a man's parking lot was located in this place. However, due to the lack of such finds elsewhere, Senk-Mar's hypothesis was met with great skepticism in the scientific community. In addition, there was no evidence that the bones of mammoths, horses, bison, and reindeer found in the cave could have been left by humans, and not by some predator.
Scientists from the University of Montreal decided to double-check the remains brought from the Yukon, which were kept in the Canadian Museum of History in Gatineau. In total, there were about 36 thousand such bones. It took researchers two years to study them more closely. Analysis of the samples revealed traces on 15 bones, which clearly indicated that they were made by humans. On another 20 fragments, experts found scratches that could also be attributed to the results of human activity.
Some of the scratches were straight lines, some were V-shaped. According to Canadian experts, such traces were made with stone tools during skinning.
The bones were from different periods. A fragment of a horse's jaw turned out to be the oldest. Its age is 23 thousand - 24 thousand years.