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Mastodon discovery shakes up understanding of early humans in the New World
Science Daily ^ | 4/26/17 | San Diego Museum of Natural History

Posted on 04/28/2017 2:04:28 AM PDT by Godebert

An Ice Age site in San Diego, Calif., preserves 130,000-year-old bones and teeth of a mastodon that show evidence of modification by early humans. Analysis of these finds dramatically revises the timeline for when humans first reached North America, according to new research.

The fossil remains were discovered by Museum paleontologists during routine paleontological mitigation work at a freeway expansion project site managed by the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans). The bones, tusks, and molars, many of which are sharply broken, were found deeply buried alongside large stones that appeared to have been used as hammers and anvils, making this the oldest in situ, well-documented archaeological site in the Americas.


TOPICS: History; Science
KEYWORDS: ceruttimastodonsite; godsgravesglyphs; neandertal; neandertals; neanderthal; neanderthals; palaeolithic
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To: Fred Nerks

The eror would have to be in the order of 100,000 years. I could see an error of 20 or 30 thousand, byt they tested repeatedly to have redundant accuracy.

We had hominids munching down on mammoths 100, 000 years ago, who the hell were they and where were they from?

A hunting party from Alpha Centauri or perhaps the Pleides? LOL.


81 posted on 04/28/2017 9:41:39 PM PDT by Candor7 (Obama Fascism (http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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To: Fred Nerks

Sitchin portrayed the Olmecs as rogue miners who formerly served the Nephilim, disobeyed them and went out on their own to inhabit South America and perhaps mine there in the Machu Picchu region.

That Sitchin Time line would likely fit the RC dating.


82 posted on 04/28/2017 9:51:08 PM PDT by Candor7 (Obama Fascism (http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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To: Godebert
First question:

Where did all the ice go from that ice age in the san diego area?

Oh, that's right, the mastodon farts caused global warming.

83 posted on 04/28/2017 9:55:04 PM PDT by going hot (Happiness is a Momma Deuce)
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To: mountn man

I still can’t find my daughter’s little red sun hat - we lost it there probably 15 years ago! Fun little park!! (Except when she realized she lost her hat!)


84 posted on 04/28/2017 10:02:33 PM PDT by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts FDR's New Deal = obama)
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To: Covenantor

“Whoever they were, they did nothing but walk and run.”

There was a TV show about a guy that lived in the woods of Washington state. He had a little bit of help from his friends, would do odd jobs for money, etc. But was mostly barefoot, wore buckskin, lived in a stump/cave during the winter, etc.

It’s been some years now, but he started walking away from the camera and the crew asked - where you going? (Obviously planned, but for the sake of entertainment...)

“I’m going to my niece’s wedding.”

“Your niece’s wedding? Where’s that?”

“California.”

“California! And you’re going to walk?!”

“Well, that’s all I do here all day long!”


85 posted on 04/28/2017 10:09:13 PM PDT by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts FDR's New Deal = obama)
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To: Candor7

I’m guessing it’s a mistake to assume there wasn’t a form of human life on that continent loooooooooong before the arrival of any homo sapiens...but they would have been a species such as Neanderthals, which were followed by Cro- Magnon man about 40,000 years ago, found in France.

130,000 years ago, if a mammoth was butchered and eaten, ‘in the new world’ who dunnit? I would want to see the skeleton remains of the eaters, not just the eaten.


86 posted on 04/28/2017 10:09:47 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum)
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To: Fred Nerks

I would want to see the skeleton remains of the eaters, not just the eaten.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

A tusk was erected upright at the site. That’s a message.
Unfortunately they did not die where they ate. Time to scour any caves in the area.


87 posted on 04/28/2017 10:22:07 PM PDT by Candor7 (Obama Fascism (http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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To: Candor7

Sitchin is to history as a journalist is to information.

He was an entertainer, not an historian.


88 posted on 04/28/2017 11:17:22 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum)
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To: Candor7

I notice the article doesn’t tell us who ‘the early humans’ might have been. It’s BS imo.


89 posted on 04/28/2017 11:25:09 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum)
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To: 21twelve

LOL!


90 posted on 04/29/2017 3:43:14 AM PDT by Covenantor (Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern. " Chesterton)
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To: Covenantor
In any case, my remark was to show that the “one mile a day” prehistoric chap as capable of covering far more ground on a daily basis if needs must.

Right; when they came across a location with good shelter, water, game and other food sources nearby, they might stay for a couple of generations, and the grandkids curious about the landscape over the next hill would explore and tell them "Hey, nicer over there, let's move".

91 posted on 04/29/2017 10:31:57 AM PDT by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Building the Wall! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: Fred Nerks

Excellent, thanks.


92 posted on 04/29/2017 11:01:28 AM PDT by blam
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To: Rebelbase

Gigantopithecus is not extinct. He is Sasquatch, Bigfoot; rare but widely distributed over the northern hemisphere. The matching stories over hundreds of years from China, Russia, and North America can’t all be fairy tales.


93 posted on 04/29/2017 11:04:55 AM PDT by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Building the Wall! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: sphinx
But it's curious that they were so slow.

Easy (or easier, it's all relative) abundance slows down development (look at Africa). Survival needs quicken it. They developed the tools and skills needed for their environment.

94 posted on 04/29/2017 11:15:11 AM PDT by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Building the Wall! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: JimRed

Interesting thought.


95 posted on 04/29/2017 6:16:03 PM PDT by Rebelbase (Deportation mayhem is just birthing pains for a new America.)
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To: Godebert

They would have had plenty of time to get to the US prior to the last glaciation.


96 posted on 04/29/2017 6:20:56 PM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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97 posted on 04/11/2020 11:28:21 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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Note: this topic is from 04/28/2017. Thanks Godebert .

98 posted on 04/11/2020 11:28:31 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Gadsden1st

They are best carved with a chainsaw.


99 posted on 04/11/2020 11:41:00 PM PDT by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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100 posted on 04/12/2020 4:05:14 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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