Posted on 10/28/2018 11:28:29 AM PDT by ETL
Sorry, I know next to nothing of the subject.
Apparently we are all related to Neanderthals which explains a lot.
Wonder what might have happened if the human lineage was pure?
Maybe the Neanderthals made us heartier and able to survive so that we ended up with brawn and brains.
Exactly! If they used “carbon dating”, that would mean the stone is “15,000 years old”, unless the people had a “use by” date stamped on the tool itself. I guess the archaeologists get their jollies over things like this, but to me, it’s meaningless.
Quote from the article:
"From 19 optically stimulated luminescence dates of sediments, they determined the artifacts were between 13,500- and 15,500- years-old."
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From Wikipedia...
Optically stimulated luminescence
In physics, optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) is a method for measuring doses from ionizing radiation. It is used in at least two applications:
luminescence dating of ancient materials: mainly geological sediments and sometimes fired pottery, bricks etc., although in the latter case thermoluminescence dating is used more often. ...”
Lots more:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optically_stimulated_luminescence
even back then Texas was armed..
even back then Texas was armed..
A 15,000-year-old stemmed point at the Debra L. Friedkin site, Texas.
No, it has nothing to do with the age of the stone which is probably hundreds of thousands or millions of years old. Stone does not get carbon dated. It has to do with where it’s found and the items associated with it. The Clovis example was a Clovis point embedded in the rib bone of a prehistoric bison. The Bison bone could be dated. Archaic Stone points can only be dated by the organic things they are found in association with.
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IOW, psuedoscience fiction!
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The age of the stone is 6020 years, more or less.
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“God blessed Texas with His own hand,” as the song says.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbH60wCO-Yw
Foxy Haunches must have dropped that spear on the way to taking her DNA test in Peru lo those sooo many years ago
Thanks fieldmarshaldj.
Team finds oldest weapons ever discovered in North America
by Keith Randall, Texas A&M University
October 24, 2018
https://phys.org/news/2018-10-team-oldest-weapons-north-america.html
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