Pre-Columbian Explorers Settled the Bahamas Earlier Than Thought
Quick and Dramatic Transformation of the Bahamas Pete J van Hengstum and his team of researchers drew their new environmental conclusions from evidence gathered at the Blackwood Sinkhole , which they explained in the paper holds near-perfectly preserved organic materials from the last 3,000 years. Using core samples and radiocarbon dating , the team examined charcoal deposits from human fires that they say dated to “thousands of years ago," according to PNAS. This information helped them to determine that the first settlers arrived in the Bahamas much earlier than previously thought. Hen...
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