Giant sloth bones push back human arrival in the Americas by thousands of years

Three fragments of giant ground sloth bones bearing cut marks from stone tools suggest that humans reached the Americas far earlier than previously thought. The discovery challenges the established theories about when the first people arrived in North and South America, potentially rewriting the timeline of human migration to the continents.

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