4 points
North America of course being any part of the Americas in the Northern hemisphere –
5 points
5 points
Even the Columbia part is weird. Should have been “present-day Columbia” or similar.
5 points
Yeah, they also varied between spelling it “Columbia” and “Colombia” in the same article.
But I get it, there’s not a lot of money in popular science publishing so they may not even have a copy editor, at least those kinds of stories are still getting popularized and not just ‘ancient aliens’.