Posted on 03/25/2011 3:49:13 PM PDT by Renfield
15,000 years ago, humans camped in a lush Texas valley, leaving thousands of artifacts behind, from tools to face paint. This could be definitive proof that ancient people arrived in America by boat, not by walking the Bering Strait.
Anthropologist Michael Waters and colleagues announced their findings today, detailing the almost 16,000 artifacts they found near Buttermilk Creek, outside the Austin area. Their discovery will change everything you thought you knew about how people arrived in the Americas.
Meet the Buttermilk Creek people
What's remarkable is that this places human occupation of America over 2,000 years earlier than previously believed. And apparently, these early settlers loved the Buttermilk Creek area - there is evidence that it's been a popular campsite for thousands of years. As Waters put it yesterday at a press conference:.....
(Excerpt) Read more at io9.com ...
The Aggies have found what is likely to be a benchmark discovery in the Tea Sips’ back yard. This should make the Tea Sips crazy.
because if we accept the existence of more than one indigenous population, the ‘native’ American Indian claims go right out the window along with their reservations, as do the claimers to Atzalan. And we can’t have that, can we?
The Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes:
Flood, Fire, and Famine
in the History of Civilization
by Richard Firestone,
Allen West, and
Simon Warwick-Smith
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