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It was heavily mineralized, which prevented standard dating, Stanford explained. But mammoths and mastodons had died out in the Americas by 13,000 years ago, so it has to be older than that. "It could be quite early," he added.
1 posted on 06/23/2011 8:06:48 PM PDT by Islander7
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To: SunkenCiv

Ping to old bones


2 posted on 06/23/2011 8:07:27 PM PDT by Islander7 (There is no septic system so vile, so filthy, the left won't drink from to further their agenda)
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How do we date the mineral? We see if it is associated with animal fossils from a certain time period.
How do we date the animal fossils? We see if it is associated with minerals from a certain time period.

Circular. They do it all the time.

3 posted on 06/23/2011 8:16:51 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (The USSR spent itself into bankruptcy and collapsed -- and aren't we on the same path now?)
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"They found Sparky? I let him out of the cave one day and he never came home! Oh the fun we had, playing fetch with the bone I used to tie my hair!"
4 posted on 06/23/2011 8:26:24 PM PDT by LostInBayport (When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)
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Pretty cool. On the same subject, I saw that Werner Herzog movie last week “Cave of forgotten dreams” in 3D last week and it was pretty mind blowing. Cave drawings from people or a person who lived 32,000 years ago. Yes, that’s 32,000 years! Almost, but not quite as old as Helen Thomas. This cave had it’s entrance blocked by a cave in and it was perfectly preserved all that time, to the point where you can see the black ashes on the ground from the burnt stick the guy used to draw on the cave wall. What got me was how good the drawing were! They knew how the muscles laid on the animal, even the facial muscles.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1664894/


5 posted on 06/23/2011 8:27:33 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Talk to me Hudson!)
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So much for cavemen vegans.


8 posted on 06/23/2011 8:39:53 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Join the AFL-CIO. The Communist Party needs new blood.)
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To: Islander7

Hate articles like this.

They leave facts unquestioned and unanswered.

Yes. It was most definitely a carving of a Mastodon.

The question I have and would be relative to the story is this - What “Kind” of bone fragment was this carved on?

Was it from the rump of a water buffalo or from a bone of a REAL Mastodon?

Seems a relative obvious fact that they seemed to overlook or maybe they thought it was sooo... obvious that they didn’t have to report that fact.

Typical for reporters today.


11 posted on 06/23/2011 9:37:05 PM PDT by jongaltsr (It)
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Interesting how good this drawing is. Puts up a plausable opposing argument regarding the credibility of theories of evolution or reincarnation, (obviously the artist learned to draw without evolving or having been once before DaVinci or somebody) but will be ignored from that perspective.


12 posted on 06/23/2011 10:59:01 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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Wow. Elephants in Florida. Well, sort of.

Very interesting.


13 posted on 06/23/2011 11:22:00 PM PDT by Rocky (REPEAL IT!)
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