What is the strangest archaeological object ever found?

Make sure you notice the person people in the picture standing in the cave, because it’s the only way you will appreciate what I'm about to tell you. The picture above isn’t a natural cave, but a burrow. This from a giant ground Sloth that lived alongside humans in the Amazon as recently as 12,000 years ago.

You can see even the scratch marks in these above pictures on the sides of the burrow and the hands of these animals were massive. The ground sloths of America they got huge. They rivalled the size of elephants in Africa today.

Grounds sloths originated in South America, and made their way to North America, before most of the other south American animals did. They were excellent at island hopping and made it as far as Cuba and the Caribbean Islands.

The picture above is one of those species from Cuba and the radio carbon dates for this species go back around 4000 years ago, so they were alive pretty recently.

There are 27 different genera of ground Sloths across 4 different families, which were alive in the late Pleistocene. The Pleistocene is that time period that ended around 12,000 years ago leading to the Holocene, a more stable climate for our species and agriculture.

We continue to learn more and more about these ground Sloths. Sloth Mylodon was not a Vegetarian. A very recent why published study showed evidence from the teeth when they looked at isotopes show it wasn’t strictly an herbivore and may have been as a scavenger.