The Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes:
Flood, Fire, and Famine
in the History of Civilization
by Richard Firestone,
Allen West, and
Simon Warwick-Smith
Posted on 02/25/2009 3:28:15 PM PST by george76
Cache of tools found in Boulder yard used to butcher ice-age camels, horses.
The “chink” of the impact sounded odd, so the crew poked around, and just 18 inches beneath the soil surface they made an extraordinary find: 83 stone tools left in a cache 13,000 years ago by people who used the sharpened rocks to butcher ice-age camels.
“Sometimes they’re interesting things, and sometimes they’re just cool rocks,” said Bamforth, who studies the culture and tools of Paleoindians, who lived in the Boulder area at the end of the last ice age.
But a good anthropologist leaves no rock unturned, so to speak, and so he headed out to Mahaffy’s front yard the next day, discovering among the artifacts the first tool found in North America that is known to have been used on the hide of a prehistoric camel.
“This is the only time in my career that this is ever going to happen to me,” Bamforth said. “To have something like this appear — to have it be what it turns out to be — it’s quite spectacular.”
Bamforth sent the stash of tools, which were left neatly in a shoe-box sized hole by people who probably intended to return for them later, to Robert Yohe at California State in Bakersfield for chemical analysis. The proteins on the artifacts, which were tested three times to ensure accuracy, were compared against the known biological makeup of mammalian families.
“I was somewhat surprised to find mammal protein residues on these tools, in part because we initially suspected that the Mahaffy Cache might be ritualistic rather than utilitarian,”
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycamera.com ...
Ice Age Camels Butchered in Colorado
83 stone implements ranging from salad plate-sized, elegantly crafted bifacial knives and a unique tool resembling a double-bitted axe to small blades and flint scraps.
http://www.livescience.com/history/090225-ice-age-camels.html
Better be careful. The muslims will be claiming that they are disturbing sacred burial sites. Also, the start of the second paragraph contains a racial slur. That could cause the author trouble.
I want a second opinion by someone certified sober and qualified. Boulder is still a drug center of western USA.
Me too, Cal State Bakersfield only employs female softball coaches.
I always knew camels stinked - but in Colorado?
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The Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes:
Flood, Fire, and Famine
in the History of Civilization
by Richard Firestone,
Allen West, and
Simon Warwick-Smith
The western camel had a very similar build to the living bactrian (two-humped) camel, but was slightly taller (standing seven feet at the shoulder) and may have lacked humps. Although its teeth suggest a diet of grasses, plant remains extracted from its teeth show very little grass and would suggest that the camel was an opportunistic herbivore (eating any plants that were around) like its modern day relatives. The western camel was more closely related to the llama than to living camels
LOL.
There are a lot of old fossils up in Boulder.
Looks like Ward was there.
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