First-ever Americans arrived 20,000 years earlier than we thought
First-ever Americans arrived 20,000 years earlier than we thought – and came by BOAT Charlotte Edwards, Digital Technology and Science Reporter 17:22, 3 Jun 2021 Updated: 18:37, 3 Jun 2021 THE FIRST humans to set foot on the North American continent could have arrived 30,000 years ago, according to new evidence. That's 20,000 years earlier than previously thought. 4 Animal bones were used to make the discoveryCredit: Andrew Somerville/ISU Researchers at Iowa State University in the US claim to have made the history changing discovery in the Tehuacan Valley of Mexico. They were originally t...