Kansas evidence may predate Texas discovery

Wichita Eagle ^ | Thursday, March 24, 2011 | Roy Wenzl

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At Lovewell years ago, fossil hunters found broken-up bones of mammoths; the site has been dated to 22,000 years ago, 6,000 years older than what Waters found. A colleague of Waters and Mandel, Steven Holen, has shown through experiments that the only way those bones could have been broken was by people smacking them with large stones, to get at the marrow or to break the bone to make tools.

Waters said Holen's work may have already paved the way to the next breakthrough. When critics said the Lovewell bones could have been broken by predators, Holen showed that predators chew the ends of bones but can't break the middle of an elephant's leg bone, as was done at Lovewell. When critics said the bones could have broken when stepped on by elephants, Holen showed that elephants didn't break bones at Lovewell. But when he hit elephant bones with large stones, he produced spiral fractures and percussion craters looked much like those at Lovewell.

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Buncha stuff I want to post before April Fools' Day.

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    Interesting

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Inconceivable! Clovis was first! /s

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Comet Theory Collides With Clovis Research, May Explain Disappearance of Ancient People

[Alas Babylon!]

22,000 years ago is a LOT earlier than what science agrees to (at this point), but fits given other evidence found but thought to be in error, like Arlington Springs woman, Luzia from Brazil, or the ancient skull found in the Mexico City museum.

I’m still thinking the Solutrean culture from France, the Aboriginals from South East Asia, and a boat/sea farer culture from Japan all beat the Beringians to the Americas.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solutrean_hypothesis

http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/news/3774/did-australian-aborigines-reach-america-first

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/11/1106_031106_firstamericans.html

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I was reading a totally unrelated story about the paddleboats (riverboats) that were used at the turn of the century for travel between England/France and New York. Riverboats don’t do well in high waves but nonetheless they made many, many successful trips between the continents.

From that story it was easy to imagine how early man likely traveled the same route using small boats. or perhaps the artic sea ice extended far enough south that there was a land/ice-bridge that hunters followed until they found America. Or even by a southern route, from Africa/Middle East to South America and then north, lending credit to the stories from the Maya and Peruvians who claimed there were races of whites/caucasians living in mountains prior to their own arrival and whom they slaughtered.