HIGHEST STONE AGE CAMPSITE REVEALS GRIT OF FIRST AMERICANS (STA BREAKING NEWS and ARCHIVES)

by STANews , Friday, October 24, 2014, 21:26

South America's early migrants reached a remote oasis more than 14,000 feet high.

Vicuñas graze in the Pucuncho Basin, where they may have been hunted by Paleo-Indians as early as 12,800 years ago.

Paleo-Indian hunters ventured high into the Andes Mountains as early as 12,800 years ago, as much as two thousand years sooner than previously thought.

The finding, reported Thursday in the journal Science, suggests that South America's first inhabitants raced across the continent rather than spreading slowly to its remotest corners.

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