Scientists in Argentina discover oldest evidence of human presence in South America

(25 Sep 2024)
ARGENTINA OLDEST HUMANS
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Buenos Aires, Argentina - 9 September 2024
1. Fossil remains of a glyptodont in La Plata Museum
2. Mammal Room at La Plata Museum
3. Close of cut marks made by prehistoric humans on a glyptodon fossil. UPSOUND (Spanish): “These are a few. Here are more.”
4. Mariano del Papa analyzing a fossil remain
5. Glyptodon fossil remains with a magnifying glass
6. Mariano del Papa showing cut marks on glyptodon fossil remains
7. Mariano del Papa and Martín de los Reyes arranging glyptodon fossil remains with cut marks
8. Glyptodon fossil remains discovered with cut marks
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Buenos Aires, Argentina - 10 September 2024
9. Aerial shot of the Reconquista River, Buenos Aires Province, where the glyptodon fossil remains with cut marks were found
10. Guillermo Jofré walking along the bank of the Reconquista River
11. Jofré analyzing a rock. UPSOUND (Spanish): "It looks like a hard stone."
12. Various of Jofré studying the location of the glyptodon fossil discovery
13. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Guillermo Jofré, study researcher and paleontology specialist:
"I got here, to this place - they (construction workers) had gotten a little further with the machines - and there I discovered that when I got to the place there was a whole mess of small vertebrae of Neosclerocalyptus."
14. Various of Jofré at the discovery site of the glyptodon fossils
15. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Guillermo Jofré, study researcher and paleontology specialist:
"Brush after brush, I begin to see very unique marks. I am not a specialist in marks, but I can differentiate between the marks of rodents, carnivores, and plants, and these did not match any of them."
16. Aerial shot of Guillermo Jofré at the glyptodon fossil discovery site
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Buenos Aires, Argentina - 17 September 2024
17. Various of the exterior of the Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences at the University of Buenos Aires
18. Tilt up of Central hall of the Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences at the University of Buenos Aires
19. Replica of a glyptodon in the central hall of the Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences at the University of Buenos Aires
20. Dinosaur posters in Dr. Claudia Marsicano's office
21.Marsicano analyzing the findings. UPSOUND (Spanish): ”But this has nothing to do with animals, made with the mouth of some animal. Not at all, nothing to do with it. They are spectacular."
22. Marsicano analyzing the findings. UPSOUND (Spanish): "This, you see. These kinds of marks are mind-blowing."
23. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Dr. Claudia Marsicano, Vertebrate Paleontologist, University of Buenos Aires:
"I think that this discovery, the interesting thing about it, is that it is like another grain of sand, yes, in a way, to build a new hypothesis about the early settlement of America."
24. Various of items in Marsicano's office
25. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Dr. Claudia Marsicano, Vertebrate Paleontologist, University of Buenos Aires:
"We have data from the United States, there is data from Mexico, from the north of Brazil. But the settlement came from the north. In other words, the better and older the data is and from places further south, the more likely it is that settlement had to have started much earlier. And this one from the guys (from Mariano del Papa and crew), precisely this one from the province of Buenos Aires, is telling you about practically 21,000 years ago.”
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Buenos Aires, Argentina - 9 September 2024
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