Thanks a fool in paradise.
Posted on 07/15/2014 1:27:51 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Famous Clovis saying after killing them all off:
“There`s no gomphothere there.”
Thanks for clearing that up for me. So who ate all the Unicorns?
Thanks a fool in paradise.
Well. That was an article I could really sink my teeth into! Not surprising to me that Clovis weren’t the first North Americans and that elephinks were what’s on the menu, boys.
What? Archeologists think folks and their food stores just magically appeared in specific places? How arrogant.
hey maybe the Washington Redskins should changed there name to the Washington Mastodons in honor of what the environmentally evil Redskins wiped out
Until they were eaten, they were not delicious.
The menu said “elephant ear sandwiches.
Th e customer on learning he couldn’t get one observed “I knew you didn’t really have elephant ears.”
The waitress responded” oh no sir, we have plenty of the ears, but we’re out of those really big buns”
Yabba, Dabba, Doo!
:’)
The author of this article seems to make stuff up. So here are some bullet points for standard American archaeology.
- Clovis first had been questioned for quite some time. It had in it’s favor no hard evidence for any other hypothesis until Meadowcroft was excavated. That was in the 1970’s. The Brits seem to have just gotten the news.
- Native Americans had been in the New World a long time before Clovis which is what the Paisley Caves (DNA) and Meadowcroft (artifacts) finds are about. They are different cultures produced by related people (this idea confuses the author).
In summary, Clovis Native Americans aren’t the first Americans only because their ancestors got here before them. To add to our knowledge, we now know they ate flying elephants.
And it’s rapidly regressing to its original state.
Don’t forget Topper in South Carolina and Cactus Hill in Virginia. It was Professor Goodyear at Topper who had the unorthodox idea to keep digging below the Clovis layers. Here he found many non-Clovis points that preceded Clovis by another several thousand years! They then dug at the other sites including Meadowcroft and found lots of evidence below. I think they went down 11.5 feet at Meadowcroft finding human tool remains.
I still like the trans-Atlantic seal hunter theory. Note that all of the EARLIEST sites (that is, pre-Clovis) were on the EAST coast.
The indians killed the elephant and the horse. Real smart. They had to walk for thousands of years until the Spaniards lost some horses.
Bingo!
You can add Monte Verde too, however it and The Paisley Caves are western sites (Chile and Oregon).
Makes me really believe people road boats to the Americas, long before they could walk to it.
I think that’s not only possible but probable. After all the Aborigine’s ancestors made it by boat to Australia 50,000ya.
We northern first nations People LOVE to kill BIG things...like Whales!
Only nowadays, with our shiny modern nuclear weaponry, The blubber just vaporizes and we are left with very tough, dry, flavorless, stringy meat. (Sigh) how I long for the old ways of my people when we could spear a nice mastadon! /s
And Timothy the Mouse has never spoken to humans again.
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