Pendants made from giant sloths suggest the earlier arrival of people in the Americas

New research suggests

(

humans lived in South America at the same time as now extinct giant

sloths

, bolstering evidence

(

that people arrived in the Americas earlier than once thought

)

)

.

Scientists analyzed

triangular

and

teardrop-shaped

pendants

(

made of bony material

)

from the sloths.

They concluded

(

that

the carved and polished shapes and drilled holes were the work of deliberate

craftsmanship

)

.Dating of the

ornaments

and

sediment

at the Brazil site

(

where they were found point to an age of 25,000 to 27,000 years ago

)

,

the researchers reported

.That's several thousand years before

some earlier theories had suggested

(

the first people arrived in the Americas, after migrating out from Africa and then

Eurasia

).

重點詞匯釋義：

sloths 懶散;怠惰;樹懶;sloth的復數(shù)

triangular 三角形的;三角的;三組的;三方面的

pendants 垂飾，飾墜;pendant的復數(shù)

craftsmanship 技藝;手藝;精工細作

ornaments 裝飾;裝飾品;飾物;首飾;點綴;擺設;美化;ornament的第三人稱單數(shù)和復數(shù)

sediment 沉積物;沉淀物

Eurasia 歐亞大陸

譯文：

巨型樹懶制成的吊墜表明人更早到達美洲

新的研究表明，人類與現(xiàn)已滅絕的巨型樹懶同時生活在南美洲，這有力地證明了人們比以前想象的更早到達美洲?？茖W家們分析了樹懶骨骼材料制成的三角形和淚滴狀吊墜。他們得出的結論是，雕刻和拋光的形狀和鉆孔是經過深思熟慮的工藝。研究人員報告稱，對發(fā)現(xiàn)這些飾品和沉積物的巴西遺址的年代確定為25000至27000年前。幾千年前，一些早期的理論認為，第一批人是從非洲和歐亞大陸移民到美洲的。 來自美聯(lián)社（AP News）