Posted on 11/23/2024 1:48:47 PM PST by SunkenCiv
On an island off the east coast of Maryland, a stone spearpoint sticking out of a coastal cliff stuns archaeologists. It asks a big question: Could humans have arrived in America 5,000 years earlier than we thought?
The Startling Alternative Theory of How Humans Arrived in America | 2:50
Smithsonian Channel | 4.2M subscribers | 64,450 views | April 17, 2018
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--> YouTube-Generated Transcript <-- 0:00 · in 2012 on an island off the east coast 0:03 · of Maryland 0:04 · a team of archaeologists found something 0:06 · that astonished them it was a stone 0:13 · spear point sticking out of a layer of 0:15 · coastal cliffs archaeologists Denis 0:21 · Stanford analyzed the find he 0:24 · immediately saw its unusual features 0:27 · this is a by face by face meant the 0:38 · stone point had been sharpened on both 0:41 · sides evidence of an ancient people 0:43 · capable of making sophisticated tools 0:46 · and it was not the only one the 0:51 · Chesapeake site turned out to be a 0:53 · treasure trove by faces projectile 0:59 · points blades 17 individual finds in all 1:05 · but most exciting was the date local 1:09 · archaeologists calculated that the soil 1:11 · layer the spear point was found in was 1:13 · around 20,000 years old 1:17 · Dennis Stanford believed this allowed 1:19 · him to date the stone tools and weapons 1:22 · as well if this dating turned out to be 1:29 · true they were here in Chesapeake Bay 1:31 · around 5,000 years earlier then humans 1:35 · are supposed to have arrived in America 1:40 · it challenged everything we thought we 1:43 · knew about the first Native Americans 1:45 · who they were where they came from 1:49 · how they got here 1:51 · and when they arrived the long-accepted 1:58 · theory is that the first Americans 2:00 · traveled on foot across Beringia a 2:03 · bridge of land now the Bering Strait 2:06 · that once connected Asia to North 2:08 · America what we believe is that Native 2:12 · Americans entered the continent sometime 2:15 · maybe around 15 16 thousand years ago 2:17 · and that the first migration must have 2:20 · been along the west coast because we 2:23 · have Native Americans down in South 2:25 · America quite far about 15,000 years ago 2:31 · the 2012 Chesapeake discoveries if 2:35 · confirmed would mean a much earlier 2:37 · migration on a completely different 2:41 · route 2:43 · [Music] ·
Across Atlantic Ice | 6:20 | Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History
27.2K subscribers | 47,690 views | March 1, 2013
--> YouTube-Generated Transcript <-- 0:04 · [Music] 0:15 · what what scientists and people think 0:17 · about the first Americans is that they 0:19 · were uh people who came from Asia they 0:22 · came into Alaska across the bearing land 0:25 · bridge during the last ice age the 0:27 · earliest people were clov people in they 0:30 · made a very distinctive type of uh 0:32 · artifact we call a clovis projectile 0:35 · point and uh we presume that their 0:38 · ancestors would have made something very 0:40 · similar clois people used the bifacial 0:42 · technology uh which is an artifact 0:45 · that's flaked on both sides un like an 0:48 · arrowhead but very distinctive with 0:50 · flutes on the bases we find them from 0:52 · coast to coast uh here in North America 0:54 · and from uh Southern Alberta down into 0:57 · uh Venezuela so we expect Ed to find 1:00 · them in Alaska and Siberia but in all 1:02 · the work we did up there and never found 1:05 · anything similar in fact the technology 1:07 · and Northeast Asia is one where they use 1:10 · tiny micro blades that are inset into 1:13 · bone and ivory projectile points and 1:15 · knives totally different 1:17 · philosophy we went to look at a site 1:19 · discovered near Cactus Hill Virginia and 1:22 · the site had a clovis occupation and it 1:25 · had another occupation below clo that 1:27 · dated maybe uh 4,000 years older than 1:30 · Clovis and they had projectile points 1:33 · similar to Clovis but they were not 1:35 · fluted and I said oh this is what we're 1:37 · looking for this is the ancestor of 1:39 · Clovis we realized almost immediately we 1:42 · were looking in the wrong direction and 1:45 · our ancestors to Clovis were here on the 1:47 · on the east coast of North America where 1:49 · did they come from they certainly didn't 1:51 · come from Siberia the cutan technology 1:54 · in Southwestern Europe looks uh very 1:57 · similar to Cactus Hill it is a bit older 1:59 · but but uh it's clear there's a 2:02 · technological relationship they're 2:04 · making their stone tools the same way if 2:06 · there had been a Crossing from Europe to 2:09 · North America that would explain the 2:11 · evidence uh that we're finding uh at 2:14 · Cactus Hill and how it relates to the 2:17 · saluton I know that uh boats have been 2:20 · known uh for at least 40 to maybe 60,000 2:23 · years and with the uh drop in sea level 2:27 · of 250 ft or so during the last ice age 2:31 · and the fact that Europe was connected 2:33 · to North America uh by an ice Bridge 2:38 · basically and people with boats could be 2:40 · hunting uh for sea mammals along that 2:44 · ice Edge uh and do quite well so what 2:48 · we've been doing is looking for more 2:50 · sites and uh we're finding many sites in 2:53 · the chesap region that are supporting 2:56 · that hypothesis 20,000 years ago the 2:58 · Chesapeake Bay did didn't exist it was 3:01 · the Susana River and the Susana River 3:03 · drained across 50 Mi of continental 3:06 · shelf before it emptied into the Ice Age 3:09 · Atlantic Ocean well the biggest problem 3:11 · then is the fact that where the earliest 3:13 · people landed and and started to live is 3:16 · now 250 ft 3:18 · underwater and uh it's really difficult 3:21 · to find those sites when uh dredging the 3:24 · continental shelf occasionally uh some 3:27 · of these artifacts have been found and 3:30 · in particular uh one found right on the 3:32 · edge of the continental shelf was a 3:34 · Mastadon skull and Mastadon remains and 3:38 · associated with them was a a very nice 3:42 · bifacial knife uh that's similar uh to 3:46 · the ones from Europe and uh radiocarbon 3:49 · dating the the Mastadon skull gave us a 3:52 · date of 22,000 which is just about 3:55 · perfect for one the sea level and two 3:58 · the timing the people coming across the 4:01 · ice from 4:03 · Europe there's a type uh DNA known as 4:07 · mitocondrial DNA and uh everybody in the 4:10 · world is in somehow or other related to 4:13 · the different types of mitochondrial DNA 4:15 · North American Indians have about four 4:18 · major uh DNA mitochondrial DNA lineages 4:22 · known as AB C and D then there's some 4:25 · minor input one of which is X and X 4:30 · doesn't occur in uh Eastern Asia where 4:35 · we see a lot of X is in North 4:38 · Africa up through Spain and even in 4:41 · Europe what's really interesting is 4:43 · there's a difference between the uh 4:47 · mitochondrial X in North America and 4:49 · that of uh Europe the 4:51 · x2 in North America is 4:55 · x2a and uh 4:58 · x2a is a result of a mutation that took 5:02 · place in the last 20,000 years so 5:05 · there's a slight difference between the 5:06 · two beginning to look like solutran 5:09 · people came from North Africa into 5:13 · Europe and 23,000 years ago moved into 5:17 · eastern North America that's what the 5:19 · genetic data is telling us well this 5:22 · discovery is really significant because 5:24 · it changes our whole uh view of the 5:28 · first Americans uh it pushes it back 5:31 · 10,000 or more years before we thought 5:33 · people were even here and it indicates 5:36 · that they're probably coming from 5:37 · multiple directions first from Europe 5:40 · and then much later at the end of the 5:42 · Ice Age from Siberia and it's beginning 5:45 · to give us a really nice picture of the 5:49 · mixing bowl that America has always been 5:54 · [Music] 5:59 · he
The rest of the 'cactushill' keyword, sorted:
Because a vintage soda bottle wasn't also found nearby in the same layer?
Jokes on them as there was no government assistance back then so there was no reason to come here.
Because they know what they’re doing.
A couple years ago there was a thread here about some footprints in New Mexico mudstone that dated to 22,000 years ago, pre-clovis (iwo).
Being picky to say that there is island off the east coast of Maryland.
It’s around here somewhere. :^)
Check the ‘whitesands’ keyword, I think that may be the one you mean.
Uh oh so the “American Indians “ were invaders as well
That’s going to sting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnFUGnjgwHc&list=PL84200DAB0C4521BB&index=2
(not sure how to post the link correctly)
The clovis solutrean connection was first proposed 10-15 years ago—all because of the simiilar spear points. In the last couple years however, I’ve read about archeologists who say that the same technology more likely developed independently.
If this story is recent, then there may be another shift in the wind.
Gen 1:3-4a: And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good
ויאמר אלהים יהי אור ויהי אור וירא אלהים את האור כי טוב
= 1776
Genesis 1:4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
וירא אלהים את האור כי טוב ויבדל אלהים בין האור ובין החשך
= 1776
it challenged everything we thought we
knew about the first Native Americans
who they were where they came from
how they got here
and when they arrived
Genesis 1:5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
Tis the Season!
My ancestors came across the Bering Strait.
By the time they got to the Four Corners, they mythologized it as us emerging from below (worlds 1-3) into the Fourth World.
Anyways...back to the article.
Sorry to ask a dumb question, but what four corners do you mean? I can only think of Utah, Ariz. etc., but I doubt they mythologized those four corners ;-)
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