This is a good book about the whole region including Calico. I thought it was very good.
Posted on 02/26/2004 11:45:19 AM PST by blam
Mmm-hmm :) And then if a tool is handed down as a family heirloom from one generation to the next, its origin may come from a different date than the site where it's found--I know this is an issue with dating Egyptian scarabs. I imagine there's quite a few variables like that which can come into play.
Thanks--will have to work through all those links :) What I've started thinking of doing lately to help organize my own files is an Excel spreadsheet where I can cross-reference finds from different regions at the same time, then maybe once I've got that I'll expand it into a database with some graphic supplements keyed to maps. Recently I've been looking at the format of the Smithsonian Timelines of the Ancient World which uses a visual layout I'm finding helpful.
There was a book by an anthropologist back in the 1970s or early 80s advancing the hypothesis that Homo Sapiens spread from America to Eurasia rather than vice versa. Unfortunately I will have to dig to find the title, but meanwhile I'll toss that out in case someone else remembers it. In light of the Calico site it seems like the book might be worth reviewing.
IMO that link is a really good example of a really bad example. Thanks for the info.
Jared Diamond did a fairly decent job of plotting humanity's growth in "Guns, Germs, and Steel". He accepted the mainstream ideas but within a very well reasoned structure.
This is a good book about the whole region including Calico. I thought it was very good.
Jared Diamond did a fairly decent job of plotting humanity's growth in "Guns, Germs, and Steel". He accepted the mainstream ideas but within a very well reasoned structure.
Thanks, I will check that out.
BTW I just found the book I was trying to remember:
Jeffrey Goodman, American Genesis (originally published New York: Summit Books, 1981)
Here's a summary from a link with a bibliography on related literatue:
From Goodman's American Genesis to Deloria's Red Earth, White Lies: Where American Indians came from
Goodman, Jeffrey. American Genesis
In this book, Goodman proposes a much earlier date of human occupation in the Americas. He believes in the possibility of an American genesis, the idea that human first appeared in the Americas.
Thanks, I've never read that one--will add it to my ever-expanding to-read list :)
These first settlers were 100% homosexual and ended up in the San Francisco area. Which is why they left no descendants.
- shaped like a hot dog
- rounded on the ends
- very smooth
- surprisingly light in weight
I'd bet it belonged to some ancient woman whose husband was absent for long periods of time.
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Blam, a bttt for your topic. SM, I think you live somewhere in California?
Archaeologist To Debunk Beliefs About North America’s Original Settlers
California Polytechnic State University
http://calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2005/may_05/raab.html
[snip] Archaeologist Mark Raab will present "The Peopling of North America -- Ice Age Mariners and Archaeology's New Frontier" from 7-9 p.m. Wednesday, May 18, Business Building Rotunda (Room 213). [unsnip]
selection of related topics:
Date Limit Set On First Americans
BBC | 7-22-2003 | Paul Rincon
Posted on 07/22/2003 6:11:50 PM PDT by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/950870/posts
First Americans
Discover | 9-1999 | Karen Wright
Posted on 07/15/2003 5:52:59 PM PDT by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/946813/posts
'First Americans' May Be Johnnies-Come-Lately (Topper Site)
Atlanta Journal Constitution | 8-20-2004 | Mike Toner
Posted on 08/22/2004 8:17:24 AM PDT by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1196832/posts
Iberia, Not Siberia
Team Atlantis | 12-6-2000 | Michael A Arbuthnot
Posted on 12/21/2003 9:48:22 AM PST by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1044449/posts
Immigrants From The Other Side (Clovis Is Solutrean?)
CSFA | 11-3-2003 | Dennis Sanford
Posted on 11/02/2003 4:11:21 PM PST by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1013315/posts
JOURNEY OF MANKIND (The Peopling Of The World)
The Bradshaw Foundation | Unknown | Stephen Oppenheimer
Posted on 04/25/2005 5:11:40 PM PDT by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1390941/posts
Rediscovering America.
(The New World May Be 20,000 Years Older Than Experts Thought)
Blue Corn Comics (?) | Charles W, Petit
Posted on 12/10/2003 1:30:57 PM PST by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1037905/posts
Site Sheds Light on Human Arrival
Published: May 26, 2001
Posted on 05/27/2001 06:25:12 PDT by sarcasm
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3b11003848e1.htm
Going Into The Water:
A Survey Of Impact Events And
The Coastal Peoples Of South-East North America
Cambridge Conference Network | 1-09-2002
Posted on 01/17/2002 4:08:32 PM PST by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/610489/posts
What Caused Argentina's Craters?
National Geographic | 5-9-2002 | Ben Harder
Posted on 05/09/2002 3:17:12 PM PDT by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/680909/posts
See the link in post #35...out your way.
Thanks for the heads up. I have heard Mark's presentation in other meetings. Good stuff.
By the way, Mark was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award at this year's meetings about three weeks ago--well deserved.
Hmmm. I found 3 very similar rocks (tools) in Tennessee.
I didnt know what they were but knew that chances were that they were not just rocks (naturally formed).
I still have them.
Interesting
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