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The Schaefer mammoth, found in Wisconsin bearing cut marks suggesting it was butchered by humans, is thought by archaeologists to be about 14,500 years old.

The remains are part of a growing body of genetic and archaeological evidence suggesting that humans crossed the Bering land bridge about 22,000 years ago, then moved southward relatively late after melting ice cleared a path through Canada, a new study says.

Photograph courtesy D. Joyce

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There was a show on the History Channel the other day which has another theory entirely. This idea is that the Clovis culture's technology was not derived from the technology of Eastern Siberia, since points in that area were made by putting bits of sharp stone on the sides of sticks of wood or ivory. The carefully flaked Clovis points is much more similar to tools of the Cro-Magnons, and Cro-Magnon art suggests that they had boats to hunt seals. So this is a theory the the first Americans crossed the Atlantic, going from ice floe to ice floe. They then suggest that the climate change of the Younger-Dryad era gave rise to tremendous dust storms of Loess, destroying the Mega Fauna and crippling the Clovis people. This was followed by the Asian migration into Alaska, which obliterated or replaced the Clovis people.