The first Americans: Clues to an ancient migration

An archaeological site in California may have opened up a whole new chapter in the history of humans in the Americas. Researchers claim the site shows evidence of humans interacting with the bones of a mastodon, an ice age relative of elephants and mammoths. New dating suggests the site may be 130, 000 years old 100, 000 years earlier than the accepted date for the first human colonisation of the Americas. Read the paper here: And a News Views article