A prehistoric discovery in the Oregon mountains could rewrite the story of the first people to live in North America.
Archaeologists said a remote rock shelter, known as Rimrock Draw, may have been occupied by humans about 18,250 years ago, thousands of years earlier than scientists once believed the first Americans arrived.
If confirmed, the site would rank among the oldest known places of human occupation in North America and date back to roughly four times the age of Egypt‘s Great Pyramid.
The findings challenge the long-held theory that the continent’s first inhabitants crossed an ice-free corridor from Asia around 13,000 years ago.
Instead, they
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