We weren't as good looking back then as we are today ... since we started shaving
our forheads.
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."
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
There have been more Clovis Points found east of the Mississippi than to the west of it.
‘Must’ve come from the south, rather than over the Bering land bridge.’
The only way this could have happened would have been if Thor Heyerdahl’s Kon-Tiki theory was correct, that the first humans in the Americas migrated across the Pacific on large sail-powered rafts. I don’t buy it. I would believe the ice boats across the Atlantic theory before I would believe it.
Happy too, that the prehistoric Texans are evolving ever so slowly.
Of course, and the way we derive origination is through condiments. Sure, all Texans were stuck eating deer and boar and bear and carp, but it's what they sauced it with is our clue.
Soy sauce packets? Bering Strait. Vinegar? England. Salsa? Chichenitza, and so on.
...he had a ten-gallon hat, a five-pound belt buckle and he never stopped talking!
No guys, you’re missing the point. What happenned — to an absolute metaphysical certitude — was this:
During the ICE Age, tens of thousands of humans from SIBERIA followed hordes of mammoths (millions of which were hunted to extinction by those same thousands of people) across a land bridge in the Bering Strait that was exposed by the growth of MASSIVE GLACIATION into NORTHERN ALASKA (again, ... in the ICE Age). Then, all of the MAMMOTHS walked across the TOPS OF GLACIERS, or the MOUNTAINTOPS of the tallest Mts in North America for miles and miles to Northern California. The mammoths were followed by thousand of people who also walked over a THOUSAND MILES on MOUNTAINTOPS and GLACIERS.
When these people reached what are now the Lower 48, they were so ecstatic that they immediately (in their thousands) marched about TEN THOUSAND MILES straight down to Tierra del Fuego.
Once there, they did a quick about-face and walked roughly FIVE THOUSAND MILES back north to Texas, ... where they finally got tired and settled down.
These ICE AGE humans walked so fast that they broke the barrier of the Speed of Light and travelled BACKWARDS IN TIME by about FIVE THOUSAND YEARS during their trek.
Of course, this was hungry work. So, while on their travels, these few THOUSANDS of ICE AGE humans KILLED and ATE MILLIONS of mammoths, giant sloths, giant beavers, giant armadillos, smilodons, and a number of other ENTIRE SPECIES of megafauna.
That, as best as I can figure it, is the “SCIENTIFIC CONSENSUS” on the matter.
Hope that helps!
Even if they weren’t first Texans would say they were.
We weren't as good looking back then as we are today ... since we started shaving
our forheads.
This recently uncovered documentary shows definitive proof.
Dinosaur Dan, the first Texas bad man
I don’t know where this Buttermilk Creek is, but seem to remember one being on Ft Hood. I know people used to find lots of artifacts in certain areas of the reservation.
Apparently, they couldn’t stop the Clovis society crossing the Rio Grande and were eventually driven into extinction.
You cannot fool me.
Everyone knows that mammoths fly.
(Coach, usually, but sometimes they get an upgrade.)
You cannot fool me.
Everyone knows that mammoths fly.
(Coach, usually, but sometimes they get an upgrade.)
We should profile for mammoths.
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No need for blue-water sailing for Moog and Oog...all that these early invaders needed to do was follow the coastline in boats/rafts first going north along the east coast of Asia, then east along the area of the Bering Strait (with or w/o the land bridge) and then south down the west coast of North America.
Now we have physical proof—remains of ‘first humans’—that Texas is actually the site of the Garden of Eden.
God blessed Texas.
Intriguing article, or artical. I must have missed this one the first time around. BTW, haven’t seen Decimon in a while. What have you done with him?
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