Distinctive Projectile Point Technology Sheds Light on Peopling of the Americas

EurekAlert! ^ | July 11, 2018 | Thomas J. Williams, Texas State U

[SunkenCiv]

[SunkenCiv]

[MUDDOG]

before Clovis

Across Beringia before the Sundering Seas.

[dennisw]

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.

[Dusty Road]

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

[FreedomPoster]

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

[octex]

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.

[T-Bone Texan]

Not all those peoples were Asian.

Some were European looking.

Scandal!

[Red Badger]

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

[Red Badger]

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...............

[TXnMA]

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!"...

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks TXnMA.

[SunkenCiv]

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.

[SunkenCiv]

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

[Red Badger]

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?.................

[TXnMA]

"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...

[SunkenCiv]

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

[TXnMA]

Gotta run to a meeting on historic archaeology; I'll check back in here this afternoon...

TXnMA
 

[dennisw]

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

[dennisw]

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.