This California Road Project Uncovered Bones 130,000 Years Too Early

A California highway project exposed broken mastodon bones beside massive stones that may have served as ancient hammers and anvils. Dating placed the remains at approximately 130,000 years old—over 100,000 years before the accepted timeline for humans in North America. Were the bones deliberately broken by an unknown hominin, or could construction equipment and natural forces explain the evidence? Explore the controversial Cerutti Mastodon site, its impossible date, and the scientific debate surrounding one of America’s strangest archaeological discoveries. Topics: Cerutti Mastodon site, First Americans, pre-Clovis archaeology, ancient humans, Ice Age California, mastodon bones, human migration, American archaeology.