The recent paper by Dillehay, et.al. contained a very curious sentence:"Fifteen species of aquatic plants from freshwater marshes of the
distant Maullín floodplain and from coastal dunes and brackish water estuaries of the delta, along with gomphothere (Cuvieronicus sensu Casamiquela) and paleocamelid (Paleolama sp.) meat, wild potatoes (Solanum maglia), and 45 other plant species from inland forests and wetlands provided the bulk of the Monte Verdeans’ diet (12, 13). "
Now the gomphothere was a four tusked relative of the mammoths and elephants that was present in North America prior to the Pleistocene. Some have speculated that some species that supposedly went extinct at the start of the Pleistocene may have survived in Mexico and South America much later. Possible evidence for this is found on an engraved piece of mastodon pelvis found by Juan Armenta Camacho in the vicinity of Valsequillo, Mexico back in the 1950s.
http://www.valsequilloclassic.net/nuke/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=44&start=0Now one has to ask how the authors identified a piece of meat as belonging to a specie that supposedly had been extinct for over a million years?
