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Distinctive Projectile Point Technology Sheds Light on Peopling of the Americas
EurekAlert! ^ | July 11, 2018 | Thomas J. Williams, Texas State U

Posted on 07/16/2018 12:06:33 AM PDT by SunkenCiv

In the lowest layer of the Area 15 archaeological grounds at the Gault Site in Central Texas, researchers have unearthed a projectile point technology never previously seen in North America, which they date to be at least 16,000 years old, or a time before Clovis. While clear evidence for the timing of the peopling of the Americas remains elusive, these findings suggest humans occupied North America prior to Clovis - considered one of the oldest, if not the oldest, Paleo-Indian culture of North America, and dated to around 11,000 years ago. In 2002, Area 15 of the Gault Site in Central Texas was identified as an ideal area to search for remnants of early cultures. The site features five distinct layers in the stratigraphic profile that showcase different cultural components, each with stratigraphic separation between the cultural depositions. Here, Thomas J. Williams and colleagues focused on the Gault Assemblage, the oldest deposit, which they compared to materials found in the Clovis layer (stratified above the Gault Assemblage). Based on optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating, the Gault Assemblage sediment samples are approximately 16- to 20-thousand-years-old, the authors say. Additionally, Williams et al. discovered ancient materials in the lowest Gault deposit, including small projectile point technology, biface stone tools, blade-and-core tools, and flake tools. The authors compared these Gault Assemblage artifacts to Clovis tools and found that the blade-and-core traditions, in particular, are similar to Clovis blade-and-cores (meaning they continued into the time of Clovis), but biface traditions underwent significant changes in the Clovis level. Meanwhile, the early projectile point technology is "unrelated" to Clovis at all, they say.

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TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: acrossatlanticice; clovis; gaultassemblage; gaultsite; godsgravesglyphs; osl; preclovis; precolumbian; texas
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1 posted on 07/16/2018 12:06:33 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
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To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...

2 posted on 07/16/2018 12:07:40 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: SunkenCiv
before Clovis

Across Beringia before the Sundering Seas.

3 posted on 07/16/2018 3:55:27 AM PDT by MUDDOG
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To: SunkenCiv

I skimmed this. All I gotta say is not all Asians got here via the Bearing Straits. There are Indians in South America who have some genes that could have only come from Australian type people who got here.


4 posted on 07/16/2018 4:09:41 AM PDT by dennisw
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To: SunkenCiv

Would have been nice to include some pictures or at least drawing of the points.


5 posted on 07/16/2018 4:30:58 AM PDT by Dusty Road (")
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To: dennisw

So reverse Kon-Tiki arrivals vs. the Bering / Aleutian Land Bridge arrivals?


6 posted on 07/16/2018 5:13:38 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Dusty Road

Would have been nice to include some pictures or at least drawing of the points.
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Exactly. Would like to see the comparison between the Clovis points and these newly found ones.


7 posted on 07/16/2018 5:21:13 AM PDT by octex
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To: dennisw

Not all those peoples were Asian.

Some were European looking.

Scandal!


8 posted on 07/16/2018 5:49:52 AM PDT by T-Bone Texan (Get off my lawn and GTFO of my country.)
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To: dennisw

Yes, Polynesians came across the Pacific, Asians across the Bering Strait. and Central Americans came from all over................


9 posted on 07/16/2018 6:11:19 AM PDT by Red Badger (July 2018 - the month the world discovered the TRUTH......Q Anon)
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To: SunkenCiv

Who’s to say multiple people didn’t come from different place at different times by different ways.

And each had their own arrow technology...............


10 posted on 07/16/2018 6:13:13 AM PDT by Red Badger (July 2018 - the month the world discovered the TRUTH......Q Anon)
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To: SunkenCiv
The Gault artifacts and the meticulously disciplined techniques applied for exposing and recording them in situ are impeccable.

My friend and colleague, Mike Collins, who supervised much of the work at Gault is a no-nonsense sort of guy. I'd trust his results over almost anyone else's.

I haven't had a chance to work at Gault per se, but, I did work with Mike on graphical analysis of his excavations at the nearby paleo "Leander"site -- and his planning, execution, recording and analysis leave no room for phony claims.

I do have a number of other Texan friends and colleagues who still cling to the "Clovis First!" theory -- but their basis for still doing so is now almost 100% ego & stubbornness.

IMO, the results at Gault are the obituary for "Clovis First!"...

11 posted on 07/16/2018 6:14:08 AM PDT by TXnMA ("Allah": Satan's current alias; "0bama": Allah's stooge; "Moderate Muslims": Allah's useful idiots.)
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To: TXnMA
Thanks TXnMA.

12 posted on 07/16/2018 6:20:14 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: Red Badger
Thanks Red Badger, and I wholeheartedly agree. North America was probably depopulated and repopulated due to glaciation. Paleo-Eskimos were supplanted in the far north (by supplanted is meant, rubbed out) by the current layer of paint.

13 posted on 07/16/2018 6:22:37 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: Dusty Road

http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/advances/4/7/eaar5954/F3.large.jpg?download=true


14 posted on 07/16/2018 6:27:38 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: SunkenCiv

If, as they tell us for decades, the entire North American continent was covered by a ‘mile high’ ice sheet, wouldn’t it have been easier to just walk or sled across from Europe and Asia?

Or, at the very least, raft, canoe or kayak along the edge of the ice sheet?.................


15 posted on 07/16/2018 6:32:30 AM PDT by Red Badger (July 2018 - the month the world discovered the TRUTH......Q Anon)
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To: octex; Dusty Road; SunkenCiv
"Would have been nice to include some pictures or at least drawing of the points.
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Exactly. Would like to see the comparison between the Clovis points and these newly found ones."


Gault Pre-Clovis Artifacts


Clovis Points

In lithic technology terms, the difference is like between a Model T and an indy Car! (Primitive to ultra-sophisticated...)

IMO, if you can accurately replicate three Clovis points in a row -- without breaking one -- you are skilled enough to replicate almost any functional lithic artifact made by humankind...

16 posted on 07/16/2018 6:39:19 AM PDT by TXnMA ("Allah": Satan's current alias; "0bama": Allah's stooge; "Moderate Muslims": Allah's useful idiots.)
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To: Red Badger

That’s a consequence of a bunch of landlubbers writing what passes for history.


17 posted on 07/16/2018 6:46:21 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: SunkenCiv; All
Gotta run to a meeting on historic archaeology; I'll check back in here this afternoon...

TXnMA
 

18 posted on 07/16/2018 6:46:24 AM PDT by TXnMA ("Allah": Satan's current alias; "0bama": Allah's stooge; "Moderate Muslims": Allah's useful idiots.)
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To: FreedomPoster

Others have also called it reverse Kon Tiki http://sciencenordic.com/mysterious-link-between-people-south-america-and-australia


19 posted on 07/16/2018 7:06:55 AM PDT by dennisw
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To: T-Bone Texan

As in Kennewick Man. What an up roar over him. I did not take the Indian side. They were out to bully honest white researchers.


20 posted on 07/16/2018 7:10:15 AM PDT by dennisw
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