Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. More than 20,000 years ago in what’s now Argentina, some of the earliest people in the Americas encountered and butchered a giant ...

When did people first arrive in South America? It's a matter of some debate, but curious marks cut into an ancient shelled mammal suggest that humans may have been roaming the continent thousands of ...

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Cut marks on fossils could be evidence of humans exploiting large mammals in Argentina more than 20,000 years ago, according to a new study. Cut marks on fossils could be evidence of humans exploiting ...

(CNN) — More than 20,000 years ago in what’s now Argentina, some of the earliest people in the Americas encountered and butchered a giant armadillo-like creature with stone tools, according to a new ...

Researchers have found evidence of butchery marks on the back of an ancient armadillo-like animal, suggesting humans were in South America 20,000 years ago — earlier than many researchers thought.

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