{"id":3922823,"date":"2025-11-15T09:03:02","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T14:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/researchers-find-evidence-of-oldest-human-occupation-in-south-america\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T09:03:02","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T14:03:02","slug":"researchers-find-evidence-of-oldest-human-occupation-in-south-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/researchers-find-evidence-of-oldest-human-occupation-in-south-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Researchers Find Evidence Of Oldest Human Occupation In South America"},"content":{"rendered":"
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40,000 years ago, a mysterious people\u2014possibly explorers\u2014lived in Argentina.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Archaeologists have uncovered remarkably well-preserved human remains that date back around 40,000<\/strong> years in Argentina<\/strong>. These skeletal remains are not only the oldest in Argentina, but could be the oldest<\/strong> human<\/strong> remains<\/strong> ever discovered<\/strong> in South<\/strong> America<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t you just love when archeology digs up something like this? It changes everything, yet it changes nothing,<\/p>\n

The more we dig, the more we understand how little we know.<\/p>\n

A team of archaeologists led by professor Carlos Aschero had discovered what is believed to be evidence of the oldest human occupation in Argentina, and possibly in South America.<\/p>\n

The discovery was made in Antofagasta de la Sierra, a province of Catamarca, Argentina.<\/p>\n

Ancient Explorers?<\/strong><\/p>\n

40,000 years ago a group of people\u2014possibly explorers\u2014lived between the northwest of Catamarca and part of Salta, in the area that integrates the salty Puna.<\/p>\n

It is unknown how long the group remained in the Argentine Northwest, but their traces were very well preserved in the desert lands, at more than 3,500 meters above sea level.<\/p>\n

Antofagasta de la Sierra is almost 600 kilometers north of the capital of Catamarca.<\/p>\n

Its climate is rigorous, cold and dry, with minimum temperatures below 0 \u00baC.<\/p>\n

It is precisely the above-mentioned conditions that most likely made it possible for the remains to remain as well preserved as frozen over time.<\/p>\n

It was an extensive search.<\/p>\n

In fact, researchers excavated 4 kilometers in the upper section of the Punilla River, in a small ravine known as Cacao.<\/p>\n

More precisely in a cave which houses a huge variety of rock art and various stone structures.<\/p>\n

There, archaeologists recovered two strands of human hair, which had been cut.<\/p>\n

They also found stone tools used for cutting and scraping, copper earrings, as well as bone fragments (complete ribs and tooth remains).<\/p>\n

Previous to this discovery, the scientific community maintained that\u00a0the oldest human presence in the area could be traced back around 10,000 years.<\/p>\n

However, the discovery offers new insight into the human population in the area, changing everything we thought we knew about South America and its early inhabitants.<\/p>\n

The tests used to determine the age of the skeletal remains were carried out in two specialized laboratories in the USA. (Arizona and CAIS-UGA) using radiocarbon dating.<\/p>\n

Jorge Martinez, an archaeologist at the National University of Tucum\u00e1n and a researcher at the Higher Institute of Social Studies of CONICET, said that the oldest traces of human presence in Argentina prior to this, were located\u00a0in the province of Buenos Aires (Pampean region), and\u00a0 can be traced back to around 14,000 years.<\/span><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, in Latin America in general, the oldest alleged human remains are located in Piedra Furada (Brazil), these remains date back between 27,000 and 30,000 years.<\/p>\n

However, Mart\u00ednez believes that the skeletal remains discovered in Brazil are very controversial, among other things due to the method by which their age was determined.<\/p>\n

According to reports, scientists used Radiometric dating to determine the age of the skeletal remains from Brazil. Radiometric dating is a technique used to\u00a0date\u00a0materials such as\u00a0rocks\u00a0or\u00a0carbon, in which trace radioactive\u00a0impurities\u00a0were selectively incorporated when they were formed, reports El Litoral.<\/p>\n

DNA tests will reveal more<\/strong><\/p>\n

Martinez looks forward to learning more about the skeletal remains discovered in Argentina after DNA tests result are done.<\/p>\n

Experts will then know who these mysterious people were, and to what genetic lineage they belong to.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe theory that prevails is that the inhabitants of America came from Asia through the Bering Strait and that they belong to four great lineages. We want to corroborate or refute that origin, perhaps we will find they belong to a different ancestry,\u201d he ventured out saying.<\/p>\n

These discoveries offer a wealth of previously unknown information to experts.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt means that the settlement processes were pervasive and diverse. And those records correspond to the Puna, where there is a lot of height and a complicated climate. What can we imagine of the occupation that could have existed in much lower areas, where life is easier! \u201c, Professor Aschero surmised.<\/p>\n

Source: TELAM<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Article originally posted by ipetricevic.com<\/a><\/strong>. Reprinted with permission<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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40,000 years ago, a mysterious people\u2014possibly explorers\u2014lived in Argentina.<\/p>\n

Archaeologists have uncovered remarkably well-preserved human remains that date back around 40,000 years in Argentina. These skeletal remains are not only the oldest in Argentina, but could be the oldest human remains ever discovered in South America.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t you just love when archeology digs up […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3922823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ancient-code","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3922823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3922823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3922823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3922823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3922823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3922823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}