Posted on 06/17/2015 2:35:54 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Kenneth Barnett Tankersley faculty page at U of Cincinnati
http://www.artsci.uc.edu/departments/anthropology/faculty-and-staff.html?eid=tankerkh&thecomp=uceprof
Sheriden: A Clovis cave site in eastern North America http://www.academia.edu/10622375/Sheriden_A_Clovis_cave_site_in_eastern_North_America
In Search of Ice Age Americans
by Kenneth Tankersley
foreword by Douglas Preston
Future Disaster Which are "Impossible to Control" [FULL Documentary HD 720p]
The Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes:
Flood, Fire, and Famine
in the History of Civilization
by Richard Firestone,
Allen West, and
Simon Warwick-Smith
Unfortunate name for a state park...
Woke in the middle of the night, the above video was playing, the segment was about Tankersley's work in Sheridan cave.
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Woke in the middle of the night, the above video was playing, the segment was about Tankersley's work in Sheridan cave.
May be perfect for young adults though. ;’)
indeed.
I’m sorry, I’m still laughing that we have a state park called “Big Bone Lick”.
As far as dating human habitation in the Western Hemisphere, I believe that the closest analogy is how geo-physicist treated plate tectonics until the older scientists finally died out or were convinced. I clearly remember 'settled science' that the earliest paleo-indian populations in the modern US were the Clovis People in New Mexico area about 11,200 BC.
Now we are finding sites like this and others scattered in many US places and down south as far as Chile. Well accepted dates predate Clovis by 1,000+ years and some estimates GREATLY exceed those dates. Something to remember is that it takes TIME to build populations, especially for very scattered nomadic populations.
Having a floor beneath which dates can’t sink isn’t new in American archaeology, or perhaps rather what passes for archaeology. It would be great if the obstacles to acceptance would die off, but I’m not sure it would help. Before Clovis-first-and-only caught on, human antiquity in the Americas was pegged around 1000 BC. Clovis was controversial and even pseudoscientific until the 1950s when RC dating destroyed objections to the dating. Having Clovis as the new floor required that a small group of hunters hustled across Beringia, waiting thousands of years for the ice to melt, then exploded across the landscape, super-hunting megafauna to extinction in order to feed what *had to* be the largest and most rapid population explosion ever documented (even though it has never been in evidence). From Alaska to Tierra del Fuego, the single group of immigrants covered two continents so rapidly that the dating can’t be discerned from one to another.
“Big Bone Lick State Park”
Who says that government types lack a sense of humor.
Oh, I agree but the ability to suggest 'settled science' ain't, is just so hard to resist. I am a firm believer in the axiom from the late great Arthur C Clarke which goes; "When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong."
My personal guesstimate is that the initial migrants probably came down the ice sheet in kayaks (skin boats) hunting and fishing and camping on shorelines long since flooded from the glacier melt. They had a clear shot down the west coast of the Americas and good hunting all of the way south. Waiting for the overland ice-free passage probably brought additional peoples that intermarried but there have been people here a very long time!
He’s gonna be coming back for a long time if he hopes of seeking evidence of climate change.
I just finished reading that book about three weeks ago.
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