Posted on 05/12/2014 9:14:22 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
The prevalence of Western Stemmed Tradition artifacts in the Northwest, known locally as Windust, also suggests that its members may represent a separate wave of human migration to this part of North America, she said, with migrants having come from the north not by ice-free corridors near the middle of the continent, as some models maintain, but by way of the Pacific coast.
“This is supported by the archaeological record in the Clearwater River region, where the earliest material found is associated with Windust,” Longstaff said.
“Kelly Forks is another of the sites added to the record which potentially contains material left by the first people to call the Northwest home.”
The chemistry of the points also reveals clues about the travels and trade that the ancient hunter-gatherers engaged in.
Using a technique known as x-ray fluorescence, Longstaff and her colleagues were able to compare the Kelly Forks tools with geological deposits known to have been used for tool-making.
Results showed that more than a quarter of the artifacts sampled were a type of volcanic rock called vitrophyre from a quarry about 50 kilometers to the south.
But nearly as many were fashioned out of rock from a deposit across the Bitterroot Mountains in what’s now Montana, and some samples hailed from as far away as central Oregon.
(Excerpt) Read more at westerndigs.org ...
I have lived in Idaho most my life and I see a lot of “archaeology” findings like this...one thing they say is that a certain dirt grain is this many years old but they look at another and it’s even older...you have to consider the facts and they don’t even add up...
Really? Exactly 13,500 years? Not a year younger or older? How was it dated? Show me the proof, I am from Missouri.
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Yea, you’d have had to read all the way to third paragraph to get your question answered, so I understand your not having done so.
There are some so-called “tools” that do not at all resemble what I would consider a tool, but these definitely appear to be man-made tools, and the progress of refinement is clear.
I was watching a program on the "Draining of the Great Lakes" and they were talking about the rivers that ran through them and created waterfalls, and other formations on the bottoms of the lakes. All this was when the lakes were significantly lower than they are today. Then even found evidence of human activity on the bottom (can't recall how deep the area was) of one of them. Something about rocks being lined up to influence the travel of game animals for better hunting.
Yep, that is what I took from it. That post of ‘civ’s was/ is one of the best short smack downs ever!!!
Heresy !!!
Once again showing widespread trade even at that distant time.
Submerged Evidence of Human Activity
Was that the same program that discussed the enormous salt deposits in the region and the huge mine underneath Detroit? It was saltwater ocean 400 million years ago.
Yes, that was exactly it. Very interesting.
Regarding the salt deposits and mine under Detroit, I couldn't say, as I didn't finish watching the program.
Unless the road is one which does not, it is possible the same route was used that far back.
I have boxes of stone tools and arrowheads that I found in south Texas and northern Mexico. That used to be my favorite thing to do, wander in the brush and look for arrowheads. It’s changed now, too dangerous with all the stuff going on down there. Too bad.
Thanks Ditter.
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