Via Latin American Herald Tribune:
... Recent excavations in Uruguay to uncover and begin to investigate the bones of animals dating back 29,000 years could shoot down the theory that the populating of the Americas came via the Bering Strait some 12,000 years ago, officials said.
A team of experts from the Science Faculty at the Universidad de la Republica earlier this year began digging in an area where a few years ago prehistoric animal fossils were discovered, the Uruguayan Office of the President said in a statement.
“In this first excavation we discovered, in the stream bed, thousands of bones belonging to between eight and ten glyptodonts, sloths and a toxodont in a single spot” in a “marvelous” state of preservation,” Richard Fariña, the paleontology team leader, said....
