Posted on 11/14/2004 2:33:59 PM PST by blam
5,000-Year-Old Artifacts Near Texas Coast
By LYNN BREZOSKY
The Associated Press
Saturday, November 13, 2004; 8:50 PM
HARLINGEN, Texas - Archaeologists have discovered a cache of artifacts near South Padre Island that they say could be up to 5,000 years old, potentially providing new clues about early peoples of the Texas coast.
Ricklis said the find is significant because so little is known about the ancient Rio Grande Valley. Most early manmade items would have been eroded by sand and sea air, or washed out by the ever-changing course of the waterways of the Rio Grande basin near the Mexican border.
"We don't have a chronology for the Rio Grande Delta," said Ricklis, who works for the Corpus Christi office of Coastal Environments Inc., an archaeological research company based in Baton Rouge, La. "We really have no idea of what the culture's prehistory was."
The artifacts were found in May during the environmental company's archaeological survey of the Bahia Grande, a 6,000-acre lowland between Brownsville and Port Isabel. The survey was required before the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service proceeds with plans to restore wetlands lost to the digging of the Brownsville Ship Channel during the 1930s.
Geologists say the Gulf of Mexico once reached as far west as Starr County and the Mexican state of Coahuila. Paleo-Indians - the term for ancient peoples who roamed the Southwest - may have seen the Gulf's final rise and retreat about 10,000 years ago, said Tony Zavaleta, an anthropologist at the University of Texas-Brownsville.
Ricklis said he believes the artifacts come from a later group of peoples who belonged to the archaic period, 7,500 B.C. to A.D. 750, which is characterized by grinding tools and certain types of projectile points.
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Perhaps, this could be Ainu? The oldest Indian remains were 6,000 years old. Kennewack man was 9,000 years old and he was Ainu likely.
My general Theory is that is would have been easier to walk to NA from europe than asia, because of the extreme low level of the seas during the glacial periods. tribes could easily hunt their way around the ice shelf and exposed land masses between the two continents.
They came from many directions. I believe the Jomon - Ainu - Austroneasians were the first to arrive in the west of the Americas. However, the Europeans weren't far behind if not first.
I'm glad I'm not the only one working on these theories... and I'm not even a scientist. :(0)
They came from many directions. I believe the Jomon - Ainu - Austroneasians were the first to arrive in the west of the Americas. However, the Europeans weren't far behind if not first.
Evidence of prehistoric global warming. Obviously (since they didn't have horses to ride) they ran around in gas wasting SUVs.
:)
LVM
Pat Buchanan's roots found!!
Were there giant belt buckles found on the scene? ;)
LOL!
European DNA Found In 7-8,000 Year Old Skeleton In Florida (Windover)
Ainus also live in Kamtchaka Peninsula in Russia. Maybe Ainus did live all over the world.
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