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First South Americans Ate Giant Sloths (30,000 years ago!)
Discovery News ^ | 11-19-2013 | Jennifer Viegas

Posted on 11/21/2013 4:11:30 AM PST by Renfield

Giant sloths were eaten by a population living in Uruguay 30,000 years ago, suggesting humans arrived in the Americas far earlier than previously thought, according to a new study.

The discovery, along with other recent findings, strengthens the theory that people arrived in South America via ocean crossings long before humans might have walked into North America from northeastern Asia, during the end of the last glacial period around 16,000 years ago. The study was published in the latest Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

These brave individuals apparently did not shy away from big game either, with giant sloth being at the top of the menu....

(Excerpt) Read more at news.discovery.com ...


TOPICS: Food; History; Science
KEYWORDS: anthropology; archaeology; godsgravesglyphs; pleistocene
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1 posted on 11/21/2013 4:11:30 AM PST by Renfield
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To: SunkenCiv

Ping


2 posted on 11/21/2013 4:11:45 AM PST by Renfield (Turning apples into venison since 1999!)
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To: Renfield
"Giant sloth...Hurrrgh..."


3 posted on 11/21/2013 4:21:15 AM PST by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: Renfield

Did they also find the over sized Weber grill?


4 posted on 11/21/2013 4:22:29 AM PST by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
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To: Renfield
"Delicious and nutritious - tastes like chicken!"


5 posted on 11/21/2013 4:26:00 AM PST by COBOL2Java (I'm a Christian, pro-life, pro-gun, Reaganite. The GOP hates me. Why should I vote for them?)
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To: Renfield

Giant Sloth... the thrill of the chase!


6 posted on 11/21/2013 4:32:41 AM PST by glorgau
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To: glorgau

Yeah, why get tired chasing stuff right?


7 posted on 11/21/2013 4:44:11 AM PST by drbuzzard (All animals are created equal, but some are more equal than others.)
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To: COBOL2Java

GMTA- beat Me to the pic so I’ll just put My caption.

Sloth- it’s what’s for Dinner!


8 posted on 11/21/2013 4:52:04 AM PST by mabarker1 (Please, Somebody Impeach the kenyan!!!!)
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To: glorgau

Just the quarry for us middle-aged hunters who are starting to slow down a bit. Those deer run too fast.


9 posted on 11/21/2013 6:11:01 AM PST by Renfield (Turning apples into venison since 1999!)
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To: Renfield

I think Andrew Zimmern was served sloth when he went to Uruguay a couple of seasons ago.


10 posted on 11/21/2013 6:24:52 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: mabarker1

Just called down to the local Synagogue to ask them whether sloth was Kosher.

That should keep ‘em busy for the next nine or ten years...


11 posted on 11/21/2013 6:26:10 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Renfield; SunkenCiv

Humanity was a seafaring population tens of thousands of years ago. I can never get over what a striking fact that is.


12 posted on 11/21/2013 6:29:40 AM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

LOL!!!

Should I check with the local mosque?

On second thought that would probably be a “hate crime”


13 posted on 11/21/2013 10:33:13 AM PST by mabarker1 (Please, Somebody Impeach the kenyan!!!!)
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To: Sloth

Watch your back


14 posted on 11/21/2013 10:52:48 AM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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To: Renfield; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; decimon; 1010RD; 21twelve; 24Karet; ...

Thanks Renfield.
Giant sloths were eaten by a population living in Uruguay 30,000 years ago, suggesting humans arrived in the Americas far earlier than previously thought, according to a new study...
We've been seeing a nice march of data this year.

15 posted on 11/22/2013 1:25:35 AM PST by SunkenCiv (http://www.freerepublic.com/~mestamachine/)
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To: Buckeye McFrog
Just called down to the local Synagogue to ask them whether sloth was Kosher.

No, doesn't both have cloven hooves and chew a cud.

16 posted on 11/22/2013 9:14:08 AM PST by null and void (I'm betting on an Obama Trifecta: A Nobel Peace Prize, an Impeachment, AND a War Crimes Trial...)
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To: null and void
No, doesn't both have cloven hooves and chew a cud.

Plus it pisses allover itself

17 posted on 11/22/2013 9:47:16 PM PST by Archie Bunker on steroids (A rational question....Who won the Cold War?)
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To: Archie Bunker on steroids

I missed that passage in Leviticus...


18 posted on 11/22/2013 9:50:00 PM PST by null and void (I'm betting on an Obama Trifecta: A Nobel Peace Prize, an Impeachment, AND a War Crimes Trial...)
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To: Renfield

So having tons of leftovers isn’t a new problem.


19 posted on 11/22/2013 9:57:43 PM PST by Hillarys Gate Cult (Liberals make unrealistic demands on reality and reality doesn't oblige them.)
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To: null and void

It may be in there? I have been next to a sloth & believe they do cover themselves in urine to make themselves less attractive to predators....think of what a giant one would smell like


20 posted on 11/23/2013 11:16:52 AM PST by Archie Bunker on steroids (A rational question....Who won the Cold War?)
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