The pre-Clovis artifacts include more than 90 stone tools, such as bifaces and blades, and more than 160,000 flakes left over from the point-making process. (Photo courtesy Gault School of Archaeological Research)
Posted on 07/26/2016 11:52:47 AM PDT by 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.
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Take em to Sears and get them replaced.
archeologists discovered the tools about half an hour north of Austin in Texas, at the site called Gault.
One could say they were "Going Gault".
Where did they go? < /Uppity New Mexican>
I assume they were identified by their giant belt buckles.
The pre-Clovis artifacts include more than 90 stone tools, such as bifaces and blades, and more than 160,000 flakes left over from the point-making process. (Photo courtesy Gault School of Archaeological Research)
Hoss/Dan Blocker was a Texan.
They probably thought that their shineola didn’t stink either.
Yeah. If it was Craftsman, it wouldn't be the original, but the replacement from 8,350 years ago...
PING
Gault’s Gulch!....................
They still are going to vote D. All deceased folks vote D. Often. Many times over.
I have found several examples of the “bi-face” tools shown in the photograph from a region several miles from the location mentioned. I live on a steep area of the Balcones fault, so the there is little material to date the tools. It all washes down the slope, leaving mostly bed rock where these have been found. I have been assuming they were from the Clovis era, but I have always been curious why they seemed more primitive than the Clovis points.
Trivia Fact: There is no Flint in Flint, Michigan.
Michigan is one big glacial deposit, and flint was not part of the geological mix.
Archaeologists think the arrowheads found along the Flint River were made from stone gleaned near Coshocton, Ohio and carried back by the natives (who would travel as far as present-day Pittsburgh on hunting expeditions).
(I only know this cause I used to live there)
Dang! So that’s where I left ‘em.
“Did they sneak by the Border Patrol?”
Seems they were the border patrol.
Which one did Liawatha identify with?
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