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Forensic evidence suggests Paleo-Americans hunted mastodons, mammoths and other megafauna in eastern North America 13,000 years ago
The Conversation ^ | June 14, 2023 | Christopher R. Moore

Posted on 06/14/2023 10:41:18 AM PDT by SunkenCiv

Based on sites excavated in the western United States, archaeologists know Paleo-American Clovis hunter-gatherers who lived around the time of the extinctions at least occasionally [emphasis added] killed or scavenged Ice Age megafauna such as mammoths. There they've found preserved bones of megafauna together with the stone tools used for killing and butchering these animals...

Unfortunately, many areas in the Southeastern United States lack sites with preserved bone and associated stone tools that might indicate whether megafauna were hunted there by Clovis or other Paleo-American cultures. Without evidence of preserved bones of megafauna, archaeologists have to find other ways to examine this question.

Forensic scientists have used an immunological blood residue analysis technique called immunoelectrophoresis for over 50 years to identify blood residue sticking to objects found at crime scenes. In recent years, researchers have applied this method to identify animal blood proteins preserved within ancient stone tools. They compare aspects of the ancient blood with blood antigens derived from modern relatives of extinct animals.

Residue analysis does not rely on the presence of nuclear DNA, but rather on preserved, identifiable proteins that sometimes survive within the microscopic fractures and flaws of stone tools created during their manufacture and use. Typically, only a small percentage of artifacts produce positive blood residue results, indicating a match between the ancient residue and antiserum molecules from modern animals.

A previous blood residue study of a small number of Paleo-American artifacts in South Carolina and Georgia failed to provide evidence that these people had hunted or scavenged extinct megafauna. The researchers found evidence of bison and other animals such as deer, bear and rabbit, but no evidence of Proboscidean (mammoth or mastodon) or of an extinct species of North American horse.

(Excerpt) Read more at theconversation.com ...


TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: ancientautopsies; blackmat; clovis; clovisimpact; dietandcuisine; flintknapping; godsgravesglyphs; helixmakemineadouble; huntergatherers; impact; mammoth; mammoths; mastodon; mastodons; megafauna; neolithic; paleoamericans
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Early Paleo-American Clovis points (left) and Middle Paleo-American redstone points (right) have a distinct fluted shape, highlighted in yellow, likely designed to facilitate hafting onto a spear or knife handle for use in hunting and butchery.
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1 posted on 06/14/2023 10:41:18 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
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The Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes: Flood, Fire, and Famine in the History of Civilization
The Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes:
Flood, Fire, and Famine
in the History of Civilization

by Richard Firestone,
Allen West, and
Simon Warwick-Smith


2 posted on 06/14/2023 10:41:48 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (NeverTrumpers are Republicans the same way Liz Cheney is a Republican.)
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To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...
The Clovis toolset itself vanished in an eyeblink along with the megafauna, because the toolmakers went extinct in the same catastrophe.

3 posted on 06/14/2023 10:43:09 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (NeverTrumpers are Republicans the same way Liz Cheney is a Republican.)
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To: SunkenCiv

We’ve always known this. What else were they supposed to eat lol?


4 posted on 06/14/2023 10:43:30 AM PDT by Macho MAGA Man (The last two weren't balloons. One was a cylindrical objects )
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To: SunkenCiv
Mammoth made for a great rack of ribs!


5 posted on 06/14/2023 10:46:04 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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To: SunkenCiv

6 posted on 06/14/2023 10:49:36 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: SunkenCiv

Well they had to eat and have clothes.


7 posted on 06/14/2023 10:49:48 AM PDT by mabarker1 ( (Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress!!!)
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To: SunkenCiv

8 posted on 06/14/2023 10:50:27 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: SunkenCiv

9 posted on 06/14/2023 10:50:52 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: SunkenCiv

10 posted on 06/14/2023 10:51:27 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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The rest of five keywords, sorted, duplicates out:

11 posted on 06/14/2023 10:51:50 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (NeverTrumpers are Republicans the same way Liz Cheney is a Republican.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Great stuff!


12 posted on 06/14/2023 10:51:54 AM PDT by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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To: SunkenCiv

13 posted on 06/14/2023 10:52:35 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: SunkenCiv

14 posted on 06/14/2023 10:53:04 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: ComputerGuy; Ciaphas Cain

My pleasure, and thanks Ciaphas Cain for the link!


15 posted on 06/14/2023 10:54:23 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (NeverTrumpers are Republicans the same way Liz Cheney is a Republican.)
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To: Red Badger

And where’s the vat of coleslaw?


16 posted on 06/14/2023 10:55:07 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (NeverTrumpers are Republicans the same way Liz Cheney is a Republican.)
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To: SunkenCiv
I coordinated in advance with the Transportation Security Administration so my collection of 13,000-year-old weaponry would make it through the screening process.

And that's how idiotic our culture of fear has become. The fact that he wasn't allowed to take prehistoric stone tools on an airplane for fear of ... whatever ... is beyond absurd.

17 posted on 06/14/2023 10:56:52 AM PDT by ElkGroveDan (My tagline is in the shop.)
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To: SunkenCiv
"Paleo-Americans"??? Did they know they were in what was to become the land named Amerigo Vespucci?


18 posted on 06/14/2023 10:59:33 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (I don’t like to think before I say something...I want to be just as surprised as everyone else.)
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To: Red Badger

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thagomizer

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thagomizer_comic.jpg


19 posted on 06/14/2023 11:18:05 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (NeverTrumpers are Republicans the same way Liz Cheney is a Republican.)
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To: SunkenCiv

This is an interesting study: Parsons Island, Maryland: Synthesis of Geoarchaeological Investigations, 2013-2020

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/353514627_Parsons_Island_Maryland_Synthesis_of_Geoarchaeological_Investigations_2013-2020_Darrin_Lowery_FINAL_7-2-2021_low_resolution_version

They found evidence of camel blood on one of the artifacts that predates Clovis. It’s a long scientific read and I’m glad there are pictures and drawings.


20 posted on 06/14/2023 11:20:52 AM PDT by KingLudd
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