Smithsonian Institute anthropologist Dennis Stanford, left, and University of Exeter archeologist Bruce Bradley examine knives from the last Ice Age.
Posted on 03/23/2012 2:43:22 PM PDT by Theoria
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CHRG-111shrg56084/html/CHRG-111shrg56084.htm
[snip] Proposed wilderness areas in Dona Ana County, NM, also contain many significant fossil and mineralogical sites. For example, a mummified Pleistocene-age giant sloth was discovered many years ago by Boy Scouts exploring a fumarole at Aden Crater. The sloth is now in residence at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. If that area had been designated as a Wilderness Area at that time, it is likely that the sloth would have remained undiscovered. [/snip]
“Giant sloths must have been easy pickin’s for hunters. Big, lots of meat, can’t run fast, and spent most of the day sleeping in trees. No surprise that they went extinct.”
That’s a seriously strong tree to hold up a 2800 pound sleeping sloth all day. And it really bruises the meat when he falls out dead.
I am sure it was a matter of survival, they didn't do it for fun. Also, compared to bringing down a Mammoth, or worse yet a Cave Bear, a Giant Sloth was probably duck soup:). Flint heads would be infinitely preferable to a sharp stick or the bone spear tips some tribes used.
It’s not bruised.... it’s “tenderized” :)
Reminds me of an old bugle call:
There's a sloth in the grass,
With a sharpened stick in its @ss...
Pull it out, pull it out, pull it out!
Some on-yons, some peppers, some cel'ry, some gumbo file, some merletons; a handful of rice...
Save the skin to make cracklin's
The first peoples in the Americas were Europeans who arrived over 19,000 years ago, were hunting seals and auks along the permanent ice sheet that covered a much reduced in size Atlantic ocean. They arrived to now drowned lands at the Grand Banks off Newfoundland and moved southeastward, probably follwing sea birds back to the main land.
The Meadowcroft Rockshelter, in Western Pennsylvania, is only a few miles from the Ohio border, and say a few hundred from the Ohio-Indiana border. They didn't say where in Ohio the sloth bone was found. The earliest human habituated (tools, charcoal from firepit) level found in Meadowcraft was 19,000 years ago.
The sloth bone is presumed to be 16,500 years old, so this means the Meadowcroft people or descendants were around that area for almost 3,000 years before killing or butchering the sloth (folks, it could have died of natural causes or other predatory action and the humans found it)!
I can't see a way at all that this proves Asians settled the Americas, yet Greenfield says it does. I personally believe they dare not say Europeans were here first because of political correctness and how that would be “cultural chauvinism”.
Smithsonian Institute anthropologist Dennis Stanford, left, and University of Exeter archeologist Bruce Bradley examine knives from the last Ice Age.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
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