2023-07-31 06:00:21
It was discovered from the discovery of the tooth of a camel that inhabited the rocky area of the Rimrock Draw Rockshelter, Oregon. How old is it? Video.
A team of archaeologists found a camel tooth whose antiquity dates from 18,235 years inside a house located in the city of Oregon, United Stateswhich, they claim, is the Oldest house in North America on record to date.
As explained by the archaeologists from the University of Oregonthrough a statement, the discovery took place on time Rimrock Draw Rockshelter, a rocky area in which, in addition, they found a large number of stone tools and other fragments of mammalian teeth belonging to animals that became extinct throughout the Pleistocene.
“Although the presence of stone tools at the site strongly suggests human occupation, the question of unequivocal proof remains a point of contention.”the scientists commented.
“The theme of first human inhabitants of North America has long been debatedwith the commonly accepted theory of the so-called ´Cultura Clovis’which dates between 15,000 to 13,000 years old, approximately”, concludes the statement.
Finally, the archaeologists officially announced that they will continue the investigations with studies that they will carry out in the camel and bison tooth fragmentsas well as with the analysis in the remains of the plants that were also found in the area, with the aim of specify, in an accurate way, the human occupation in the place.
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