New findings indicate that Europeans were not the first humans on the Falkland islands
New paleoecological and archaeological findings on the Falkland islands in the southern part of the Atlantic Ocean indicate that Europeans were not the first humans on the islands. The new findings show that Native Americans may have visited the islands sometimes between 1275 and 1420. Also earlier visits may have occurred. The findings also raise the question if the so called Warrah (Dusicyon australis) , a kind of now extinct fox, endemic to the islands, can have been brought there by humans. From Science: Evidence of prehistoric human activity in the Falkland Islands When Darwin visited the Falkland Islands in 1833, he noted the puzzling occurrence of the islands’ sole terrestrial mammal, Dusicyon australis (or “warrah”). The warrah’s origins have been debated, and prehistoric human transport was previously rejected because of a lack of evidence of pre-European human activity in the Falkland Islands. We report several lines of evidence indicating that humans w...