Posted on 01/25/2026 8:45:16 PM PST by SunkenCiv
Arlington Man -- In 1959, while looking for pygmy mammoth bones on Santa Rosa Island, Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History archeologist Phil Orr discovered a human femur sticking out of the canyon wall at Arlington Springs. He knew it was old, but scientific dating technology couldn’t tell him how old. Yet. So he put the bones away in the basement of the SBMNH where they were rediscovered by Don Morris and John Johnson in the 1990s. These two archeologists take us back to Arlington Springs while explaining how modern carbon dating confirmed the bones were over 13,000 years old... the oldest ever found in North America. And how this discovery completely altered the accepted theory of human migration on our continent.
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We’ll have to rewrite our land acknowledgements.
Train station?
I became interested in archaeology in the 1970s. So, I added an archaeology major to my first love, Spanish. Took many, many college archaeology courses, and even was able to excavate in California and Central America before realizing that one cannot pay a mortgage, or any other bill, with archaeology.
In the 1970s, all of the “experts” determined that during the last Ice Age, humans came across the Bering Straights into present-day Alaska. The “experts” stated that crossing happened 10,000 years ago. I decided not to challenge this out loud in class, while telling people in individual conversations that this was probably way off.
One of the joys and frustrations of archaeology is that the Earth is constantly changing, moving, and, especially, covering up. There is all kinds of evidence under our feet. Little by little, we discover more.
Just netsearch LIDAR and the Mayan areas. We discover more and more.
one cannot pay a mortgage, or any other bill, with archaeology.
True: Leaky, Schliemann and Carter found everything worth finding...
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Great Scientific Revolutions occur one Department Chair Retirement at a time.
“Great Scientific Revolutions occur one Department Chair Retirement at a time.”
Excellent observation.
I have an alibi.
BoneS are, not boneS is.
Every year more and more evidence keeps proving Graham Hancock right.
Unlike the ludicrous “Ancient Aliens” crew, Graham argues that what we call our ancient civilizations were merely civilizations built by survivor generations (many generations removed) of mighty civilizations that existed before and during the last ice age. The great flood legends come from the actual great floods released by the climactic end of the last ice age.
Or one funeral at a time. ⚰️
The first Americans came down the Pacific coast in boats, island hopping while chasing yummy and abundant sea creatures.
There were people using boats since Australia was inhabited 40,000 years ago.
Not so hard to believe this technology traveled from the Sundaland/Wallace line along all of East and Northeast Asia.
They spelled California wrong, so I don’t expect too much from their prose. 📜
Yup. For that matter, people have been using boats at least since Flores Island got its first known artifacts circa 800K ago. Landlubbers don’t write good history.
“Just netsearch LIDAR and the Mayan areas.”
Amazing finds. We don’t know anything.
The earth also exposes. Sometimes it just waits for some brilliant mind with a keen eye.
The question I have(and maybe I’m the only one asking) is how accurate is carbon dating at some of these super-long ages ago with no possible human verification?
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