Hacker News with Generative AI: Prehistory

Giant sloth bone pendants suggest humans were in Americas earlier than thought (cnn.com)
Ancient Rapanui genomes reveal pre-European contact with the Americas (nature.com)
Rapa Nui (also known as Easter Island) is one of the most isolated inhabited places in the world.
To kill mammoths in the Ice Age, people used planted pikes, not throwing spears (phys.org)
Paleolithic people settled in Cyprus thousands of years earlier than thought (phys.org)
Solutrean Hypothesis (wikipedia.org)