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Thought this worthy of a new thread. http://www.nature.com/news/controversial-study-claims-humans-reached-americas-100-000-years-earlier-than-thought-1.21886 Controversial study claims humans reached Americas 100,000 years earlier than thought Broken mastodon bones hint that Homo sapiens wasn’t the first hominin to get to the New World. Ancient humans settled in North America around 130,000 years ago, suggests a controversial study — pushing the date back more than 100,000 years earlier than most scientists accept. The jaw-dropping claim, made in Nature1, is based on broken rocks and mastodon bones found in California that a team of researchers say point to human activity. Their contention, if correct, would force a dramatic rethink of when and how the Americas were first settled — and who by. Most scientists subscribe to the view that Homo sapiens arrived in North America less than 20,000 years ago. The latest study raises the possibility that another hominin species, such as Neanderthals or a group known as Denisovans, somehow made it from Asia to North America before that and flourished.

Arrived in North America 100,000 years earlier than previously believed, but only got to Central and South America in the last 20,000 years due to traffic in LA, probably...

No.....I'm not joking. Your pissing in the wind. You could have a PGF style thread debating that film for the next 10 years with red and blue lines pointing to this or that and never get anywhere with it. But it sure in the heck is CLEAR enough to be on par with any trail camera video the CCP could manage to capture. So what are we talking about here? Your pointing out the lack of DNA though Drew? I actually agree with you. You can read through my caloric intake thread and see that I do. We should be finding scat and hair that positively ID's a new discovery for Biology. Why we are not is bothersome for sure.