More signs emerge of New World settlers before 20,000 years ago

South American site yields controversial tools of pre-Clovis campers

Three simple stone tools

NEW WORLD ROCKS  Shown from different angles, three simple stone tools unearthed in Brazil belong to a set of finds suggesting that people reached South America around 24,000 years ago (3) and again about 15,000 years ago (1 and 2).

E. Boëda et al/Antiquity 2014

New finds support the controversial idea that people inhabited South America before Clovis hunters reached North America around 14,000 years ago.