Posted on 03/24/2011 5:55:11 PM PDT by decimon
Humans camped by the shores of a small creek in Texas possibly even before the Clovis society, classically regarded as the first human inhabitants of the Americas, settled in the West.
The site, located in central Texas on the bank of Buttermilk Creek, has produced almost 16,000 artifacts, including stone chips and blade-like objects, in soil dating up to 15,500 years old, more than 2,000 years before the first evidence of Clovis culture. Many of the items are flakes from cutting or sharpening of tools, but the research team also found about 50 tools, including several cutting surfaces — including spear points and knives.
"The tools that we found there indicate that they were camping along the Buttermilk Creek," study researcher Mike Waters, at Texas A&M University, told LiveScience. "This probably would have been a place where they were living and conducting daily activities."
All of the objects were small and light and seem to indicate that the group led a mobile lifestyle, moving from place to place but always returning. From the wear and tear on the artifacts, some seem to have been used for cutting soft materials, like hides, while others may have been used on harder materials, like stone.
The prehistoric humans seem to have used the site for multiple centuries, as the soil where the artifacts were found was dated to between 12,800 and 15,500 years ago. "They would leave the site and come back, and each time leave behind evidence of their activities," Waters said. "They slowly but surely built up these deposits. Dating them shows they range from 15,500 years ago, then just keep going until the Clovis material."
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Aggie ping.
Happy to say the prehistoric Texans are still thriving!
This is gonna’ be a fun thread!
/johnny
Long Tusks?
Sending this one to my Aggie friend!
I see that the “Clovis Mafia” is alive and well in Academia.
These guys are the biggest frauds in ALL of science. The Clovis myth has been disproven over and over again but well connected Ivy League academics have prolonged the Clovis Myth.
The reason they are called the “Clovis Mafia” is that any professor or Ph.D. student who even dared to question them was summarily “executed” (academically speaking)
There were numerous instances where active digs were SHUT DOWN when the dig reached the Clovis layer even though it was evident there were older layers below it
Older remains have already been found in Chile and other places in South America. Even Peru found remains over 15000 years old.
Clovis is a giant myth and the Clovis Mafia needs to die (academically speaking)
“This probably would have been a place where they were living and conducting daily activities.”
Aggies all in our points ping
And the same Austin neanderthal tribes were mating with each other and the animals they worshiped which affected their numbers resulting in a small area in TX. Liberalism goes way back..
I’ve met some pretty prehistoric Texans!
I am down right proud to say.....
You got that right!
LOL
Texans summer in NM is how Clovis happened, simple as that.
If not evolving.
Sorry, just teasing. Can’t resist a “straight line”.
Well, unless they flew in, they had to have been somewhere besides Texas before they got to Texas.
GTT
-Adam & Eve
Must’ve come from the south, rather than over the Bering land bridge.
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