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The debate about the age of these discoveries escalated when the Smithsonian Institute published a paper arguing against the antiquity of human presence in North America. However, within months of the publication, the excavation team uncovered a bison scapula with a Folsom point embedded within it, signaling that humans had indeed been hunting these majestic creatures as long as 12,450 years ago—a revelation that thrust the timeline of American history back into focus.