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. [tier=gold indep_score=0.867 clusters=6 claim_tier=notable | framework convergence=partial on the PLOS ONE peer-reviewed study (Del Papa et al. 2024) is the ultimate source of the location and finding details, but this is the original scientific research itself, not a derived index -- independent journalists and the paper's own text corroborate the same facts (upstreams: Del Papa et al. 2024, PLOS ONE study) — publishers independent, evidence may not be | kind=empirical eligibility=high]
Sources
- Hallan restos de un gliptodonte con marcas de origen humano que replantean las hipótesis sobre el poblamiento de América | CONICET (seed:history_and_archaeology)
- https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0304956 (corroboration)
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11253959/ (corroboration)
- 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/ (corroboration)
- https://www.sci.news/archaeology/stone-tool-marks-glyptodont-bones-argentina-13106.html (corroboration)
- https://www.yahoo.com/news/humans-reached-argentina-20-000-180000948.html (corroboration)
- https://www.c5n.com/sociedad/merlo-encontraron-restos-un-gliptodonte-el-rio-reconquista-n166155 (corroboration)