A glyptodont skeleton with cut marks was found beside the Reconquista river near the Roggero Dam, on the border between Merlo and Moreno, Buenos Aires province, Argentina.
Notes on verification
Confirmed by the original peer-reviewed PLOS ONE study (Del Papa et al. 2024) and cross-verified by multiple independent Argentine and international news outlets reporting the same find location and details.
Sources
- Hallan restos de un gliptodonte con marcas de origen humano que replantean las hipótesis sobre el poblamiento de América | CONICET (conicet.gov.ar)
- https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0304956 (journals.plos.org)
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11253959/ (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
- https://www.infobae.com/america/ciencia-america/2024/07/17/habia-humanos-en-el-area-metropolitana-de-buenos-aires-hace-20-mil-anos-la-pista-esta-en-los-restos-de-un-gliptodonte/ (infobae.com)
- https://www.sci.news/archaeology/stone-tool-marks-glyptodont-bones-argentina-13106.html (sci.news)
- https://www.yahoo.com/news/humans-reached-argentina-20-000-180000948.html (yahoo.com)
- https://www.c5n.com/sociedad/merlo-encontraron-restos-un-gliptodonte-el-rio-reconquista-n166155 (c5n.com)