Archaeologists discover the largest predator encountered by ancient humans in North America!
There is much debate among scholars as to who the people who first arrived in the Americas are and who deserve to be called indigenous.
While many believed for a long time that the Clovis people were the first to set foot on American soil from Siberia and cross an ice bridge to Alaska during the Ice Age, there is a theory espoused by some in support that the first people to set foot on the land of the Americas were from Spain and specifically from the culture Solitaire.
The antiquities discovered so far showed that this first arrival ranged between 20,000-30000 years, and that America was filled at this time with a group of the most massive animals ever, such as the short-faced bear, mammoth and ground sloths, and that the stone tools used by the early inhabitants contributed to the elimination of those animals After they succeeded in slaughtering it, eating its meat and getting rid of it.
A recent documentary, Ice Bridge: The Impossible Journey, aired on the Smithsonian Channel, proves that there was a transitional stage between the Soltrian civilization that arose around 20 thousand BC in France, Spain, Poland and Czechoslovakia, and the Clovis civilization, most famous among scholars as the first race to inhabit the Americas. .
The Soltrian civilization was famous for its very distinguished stone tools, which some scholars believe were the basis on which the Clovis people relied in eliminating the megafauna that lived in the Americas 800,000 years ago and which were not present in Europe at all during the Ice Age.
The documentary confirms that the short-faced bear became extinct 11,000 years ago, which is a period of seconds from the age of the Earth, and it could chase prey at a speed of 25 miles per hour and could reach 13 feet in length, and it is believed to be the largest carnivorous animal ever known among terrestrial mammals. .
It also seems that the ancients on the land of the Americas encountered another giant, the ground sloth, which could reach the size of a full-grown bull, weighing more than 1,000 kilograms and 3 meters long, and initially lived in South America about 35 million years ago to make its way to North America before 8 million years ago to take large lakes and rivers as its natural habitat.
And when, in 2018, scientists succeeded in discovering fossilized human footprints inside the feet of a terrestrial human being, this strengthened the beliefs that sloths were being chased by humans.
But who chased after these huge animals and succeeded in controlling them, were they the Europeans from the Soultrian civilization or the Clovis from the Asian regions? This is what scientists are trying to reach a decisive theory for, especially with the many contradictions in the way Europeans migrated to America during the Stone Age and the lack of evidence of the use of boats in Europe itself at this early time.
So many are still convinced that Clovis were the first inhabitants of America and that the slotterian theory is an attempt to involve Europeans in the original history of America to explain colonialism and its subsequent crimes.
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