Humans in Texas 16,000 Years Ago (my title)

Ancient Origins ^ | 7/21/3016 | Nadia Klimczak

[wildbill]

Archaeologists in Texas have found a set of 16,700-year-old tools which are among the oldest discovered in the West. Until now, it was believed that the culture that represented the continent’s first inhabitants was the Clovis culture. However, the discovery of the ancient tools now challenges that theory, providing evidence that human occupation precedes the arrival of the Clovis people by thousands of years.

[wildbill]

Everybody prefers to live in Texas. These folks knew that 16,000 years ago.

(Mentions some finds of what might be the Salutrians off the East Coast.)

[showme_the_Glory]

16,700-year-old tools which are among the oldest discovered in the West

Must be Snap On?

[Bratch]

Did they sneak by the Border Patrol?

[MeganC]

Humans were in Texas 16,000 years ago? Hillary says they’re going to vote Democrat!

[Buckeye McFrog]

They were identified by their Dallas Cowboys logo stickers.

[rdl6989]

Pre-Clovis ping.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

Thats North America but they have evidence of tools going back 3.1 million years, cuts on fossilized bones

[Repeal The 17th]

Ancient Origins | 7/21/3016 | Nadia Klimczak
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Is this article really from 1000 years in the future?

[blueunicorn6]

Round, dull, thick spear heads that wouldn’t penetrate water?

Yep.

Those are some of my ancestors there.

[SpinnerWebb]

Yes. But then, some of us already knew that.

[Huskrrrr]

[plain talk]

archeologists discovered the tools about half an hour north of Austin in Texas, at the site called Gault. They were located a meter deep in water-logged silty clay. The site contained more than 90 stone tools and some human remains including fragments of teeth.

cool

[Repeal The 17th]

Right,
but that makes these objects only 15,700 years old
based upon your current earth calendar.

[Bender2]

HOW's 'BOUT ☆ ☆ ☆ THEM COWBOYS!

[Tucker39]

Craftsman.

[katana]

Sixteen thousand years ago the climate in Texas was late Ice Age, temperate and mild with grassland and forest. Just about paradise. Now it's more the political and business climate that draws people there.

[Savage Beast]

Are they eligible for Texas First Families?

[BeauBo]

From the Article (it is hard to see their identifying large belt buckles):

[Ditter]

I am a Texas arrowhead Hunter from way back, I have boxes of arrowheads and pieces of worked flint.

I was walking along a creek not too far from this place in the article, years ago. The creek had a high bank and I noticed something about 12 feet from the top. It was a the remains of a small campfire and there was burned wood and several arrow heads. The campfire had been partially washed down toward the creek.

I took the arrowheads and a few pieces of the burned wood. I wish I knew where those things were, I might have found someone who could have dated them for me.

[morphing libertarian]

But any today?