Posted on 05/24/2017 8:21:42 PM PDT by MtnClimber
About 600 kilometers north of Peru, an imposing earthen mound looms over the sea. People began building the ceremonial structure, called Huaca Prieta, about 7800 years ago. But according to a new study, the true surprise lies buried deep beneath the 30-meter-tall mound: stone tools, animal bones, and plant remains left behind by some of the earliest known Americans nearly 15,000 years ago. That makes Huaca Prieta one of the oldest archaeological sites in the Americas and suggests that the region’s first migrants may have moved surprisingly slowly down the coast.
The evidence of early human occupation stunned Tom Dillehay, an archaeologist at Vanderbilt University in Nashville who led the new study. Initially, he was interested in examining the mound itself. But geologists on his team wanted to study the landform under the mound, so “we just kept going down,” he says. The deepest pit, which took 5 years to excavate, reached down 31 meters. Shockingly, those deep layers contained telltale signs of human occupation, Dillehay’s team reports today in Science Advances: evidence of hearth fires, animal bones, plant remains, and simple but unmistakable stone tools. Radiocarbon dates from charcoal place the earliest human occupation at nearly 15,000 years ago.
That’s made some researchers say Huaca Prieta should join the small but growing list of pre-14,000-year-old sites that have revolutionized scientists’ vision of the earliest Americans. Archaeologists used to think that people walked from Siberia through an ice-free passage down Alaska and Canada, reaching the interior of the United States about 13,000 years ago. In recent years, however, well documented earlier sites like Chile’s Monte Verde have convinced most archaeologists that humans made it deep into the Americas by 14,500 years ago, meaning that they would have had to cross Canada long before an ice-free corridor existed.
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That is a huge dirt mound pyramid to be made by migrating nomads.
Interesting
Now all their offspring live down the street from me. /sarc
Impossible.
The Earth is only 6,000 years old.
We know that based on the physics manual we were provided in 32 BC.
And the cave drawings of man riding dinosaurs.
Back then, there was no TV, no radio, no comic books. All the people could do for entertainment was build dirt mounds. Makes sense to me.
Takeaway lesson: don't stand under a falling pyramid
And so they stopped digging because Everybody Knows there was no one here before 15000 years ago.
Digging tunnels in the back yard was
My first real talent...
It’s in the DNA.
I read Michener’s book “The Tell” (iirc) years ago, about the Israeli hilltop cities built on top of previous cities. I think most of the previous towns were destroyed in battles, but perhaps natural and manmade disasters too. Then they would start all over again. I’m guessing a lot of history in the mound down through the ages.
They found some 11,000 year old tools and stuff along a creek in my town. No mounds though, and no long history. Just the 11,000 year old tools and bones, 5 to 10 feet below some old Rainier Beer cans.
“We know that based on the physics manual we were provided in 32 BC.”
And watching four episodes of the Flintstones.
Or sailed across the Atlantic. Let's see some DNA results! ;-)
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RTFA...
The nomads migrated through, left a campsite, and thousands of years later, permanent settlers built the pyramidal mound atop the site...
You’re right of course. (I had the number of syllables correct though!)
“The Source is a historical novel by James A. Michener, first published in 1965. It is a survey of the history of the Jewish people and the land of Israel...”
Two cowboys come upon an Indian lying on his stomach with his ear to the ground. One of the cowboys stops and says to the other, “You see that Indian?”
“Yeah,” says the other cowboy.
“Look,” says the first one, “he’s listening to the ground. He can hear things for miles in any direction.”
Just then the Indian looks up. “Covered wagon,” he says, “about two miles away. Have two horses, one brown, one white. Man, woman, child, household effects in wagon.”
“Incredible!” says the cowboy to his friend. “This Indian knows how far away they are, how many horses, what color they are, who is in the wagon, and what is in the wagon. Amazing!”
The Indian looks up and says, “Ran over me about a half hour ago.”
I’ll bet when the guy got through piling all that dirt on them, he thought nobody would ever find them there.
So you think some ancient guy really hated his wife and her whole family so he showed his hate by burying them really, really deep?
While I did attend Creation science seminars in college in the 70’s, I have some property near Mt. St. Helen’s.
I was digging out for a shop, and about 4’ down I hit a boulder. It was bigger than a trash can, but my college geology class taught me that it was a glacial erractic, over 10,000 years old.
I don’t have a problem with some of the research laying out interesting timelines on the earth.
The author’s first sentence is wrong.
Huaca Prieta is 600km north of lima, not peru
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