Giant sloth pendants suggest people arrived in the Americas thousands of years earlier than thought

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9. That does make a lot of sense.

Sailing directly across the Pacific always seemed like quite a stretch but now by island hopping and cruising down the coast, certainly.

Plus, it's pretty much a given that one can travel by water along that coast a lot faster than by walking. Especially when one considers the natural obstacles and interesting distractions along the land route. Allows for the time to eventually move all the way inland to central Brasil where those sloth carvings were found.

I was glad to see they ruled out the possibility of those people having carved them out of much older bones they found which would have thrown those dates into question.

Good explanation of why there a lack of older dates for settlements in North America than in the Southern continent too because I always wondered about that.

Great stuff, thanks!