Posted on 05/14/2016 11:55:23 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
The bone was found below a layer that contained material from the Pleistocene period when the last ice age was thought to have occurred. The archaeologists identified the bison using an upper molar, which is thought to be representative of a Bison antiquus, a direct ancestor of the American bison that roamed North America until it became extinct. Because bison was a grassland-adapted animal, nearly 100 percent of their bones disintegrated after death unless they were preserved in some way.
"This finding is especially significant because of the meticulous documentation that has been involved," said James M. Adovasio, Ph.D., principal investigator. "Along with the fact that bones like this have never been found on land as part of a calculated archaeological effort. Others like this have all been found underwater, in sinkholes or streams."
Bison antiquus, sometimes referred to as the "ancient bison," was the most common large herbivore of the North American continent for more than 10,000 years, and is a direct ancestor of the living American bison. They were approximately 8 feet tall, 15 feet long and weighed close to 3,500 pounds...
Scientists also found other bones at the site from small mammals, along with slivers of bones from large mammals that could have come from mammoth, mastodon, sloth or bison. Pieces of charcoal and the head of a fly were discovered earlier in this year's excavation, which began in late February.
The Old Man Vero Site was originally discovered in 1915 after construction efforts on a drainage canal exposed the well-preserved remains of late Pleistocene flora and fauna in association with human remains and artifacts.
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Let’s just call them Buffalo and move on...
So, just when did the ancient long horn bison become short horn and do we have anything showing a shortening of the horns over the millenniums.
Do the European bison show such changes?
She’s almost as ugly as Helen Thomas was.
That is interesting! Thanks!
Phosphate mining in central Florida always brings up sharks teeth of various sizes. Occasionally, it would cough up some mastodon parts.
They found bison and mastodon bones that dated to 14,500 and showed clear signs of human butchering.
I grew up in Florida, and I can't recall ever being taught that large grazing animals once roamed the state. In fact, modern day Florida really has nothing that resembles large dry ground grasslands, so it's hard to understand what a bison could have survived on, especially in the Vero Beach area.
The cool thing about the Tallahassee site is that the 14,500 year date plays havoc with the consensus idea that Clovis people were the first to inhabit the Lower 48
——They were approximately 8 feet tall, 15 feet long and weighed close to 3,500 pounds...——
What a massive animal...
Imagine a beast as tall as the standard height of a room in a standard built home...
*smiles*...she was my first choice, but I could remember her name
Please add me to your “ping” list. Here in So. Dak., geologists and archeologists have found fossils of tropical ferns, fauna, sea life and and other prehistoric critters. Results of an ancient ice age.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3430367/posts
and from FReepmail:
http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a20872/tools-mastodon-florida-underwater-archaeology/
Glad I could help! I couldn’t recall her name a few days ago, either, and I think it’s because she was so ugly, it shocked my brain to think of her. GAH!
...ever since I found out she was arab
SoDak is rich with that stuff!
But I don’t want to live there, thanks!
No wonder the “husbands” insist on the wives being in burkhas!
As long as insurance was up to date.
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