LAS VEGAS (KLAS) -- A new study gives scientists a fresh look at what life was like in the Las Vegas valley more than 12,000 years ago.

Before the strip, Southern Nevada was home to ice-age animals. The new discovery is helping to rewrite local history.

Tule Springs was once home to now extinct Ice Age giants – mammoths, camels, bison, and horses. New research shows humans were also living here thousands of years ago. It all started back in 1933, when scientists digging north of Las Vegas made a discovery.

“One single flake. I say a flake is like a piece of stone chipped off of a tool, an ancient stone tool,” Dr. Daron Duke, principal investigator for Far Western Anthropological Research Group, said.

That flake started decades of debate. Did people and ice age animals live here at the

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