Smithsonian Institute anthropologist Dennis Stanford, left, and University of Exeter archeologist Bruce Bradley examine knives from the last Ice Age.
The Meadowcroft Rockshelter, in Western Pennsylvania, is only a few miles from the Ohio border, and say a few hundred from the Ohio-Indiana border. They didn't say where in Ohio the sloth bone was found. The earliest human habituated (tools, charcoal from firepit) level found in Meadowcraft was 19,000 years ago.
The sloth bone is presumed to be 16,500 years old, so this means the Meadowcroft people or descendants were around that area for almost 3,000 years before killing or butchering the sloth (folks, it could have died of natural causes or other predatory action and the humans found it)!
I can't see a way at all that this proves Asians settled the Americas, yet Greenfield says it does. I personally believe they dare not say Europeans were here first because of political correctness and how that would be “cultural chauvinism”.
Smithsonian Institute anthropologist Dennis Stanford, left, and University of Exeter archeologist Bruce Bradley examine knives from the last Ice Age.