#1049 Thaís Pansani: H. sapiens in the Americas, and the Extinction of Megafauna
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Hello, everyone. Welcome to a new episode of The Decenter. I'm your host, as always, Ricard Lopes, and today I'm joined by Dr. Thais Pansani. She's an associate researcher at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History. Her main research questions are about human interaction with the Pleistocene megaphone in the Americas. And the people in the Americas. So today we're going to talk about uh humans arrival in the Americas and megafauna there and its extinction, those are the two main the topics we're going to cover. So Doctor Pansani, welcome to the show. It's a pleasure to everyone. Hello, welcome. Thank you for um
uh asking uh me for to join this interview and for the opportunity to talk a little bit about these topics that I think it's fascinating. So really happy to be here. Thanks for the invitation. No, it's really fascinating, and I've already talked a little bit with some other anthropologists on the show about the people of the Americas, so I would really like to get some more details today. So but uh let's start with perhaps uh a timeline here. So do we know when exactly Homo sapiens arrived? In the Americas. We know what is for sure the timing that humans were in the Americas.
So we know that for sure humans got to the Americas around Fiftien thousand years ago that is what І сад і архілогінтроположі. Pigantology.
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