'Scientific American' Shines Spotlight On SC Dig (Topper Site - TV Tonight)

The State.com ^ | 7-20-2004 | Doug Nye

[blam]

‘Scientific American’ shines spotlight on S.C. dig

By DOUG NYE
Television Editor

Posted on Tue, Jul. 20, 2004

About 12,000 years ago, the first people to journey to the American continents did so by crossing the Bering land bridge from Asia. At least, that’s what archaeologists have long believed. But tonight’s edition of “Scientific American Frontiers” examines five archaeological sites that could prove that humans walked this land much earlier.

Among the digs spotlighted is USC’s Topper excavation site in Allendale County, supervised by archaeologist Albert C. Goodyear, director of the Allendale Paleo-Indian Expedition of the S.C. Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology.

Goodyear thinks the findings there could prove that people set foot in America as many as 25,000 years ago.

“If, in fact, these newly discovered sites date back to 25,000 years — which they could — we won’t stop hearing about it for another 10 years,” Goodyear said. “This has put us with both feet into the issue of how and when our species radiated out from the Old World. The very idea that humans could have gotten here before the Paleo-Indians 12,000 years ago is like saying we’ve found life in outer space. It’s so contrary to the last 75 years of research.”

Tonight’s program also shows the impact this new theory has had on the archaeological world and the heated debate that has ensued. 9 p.m., PBS, WRLK-35, cable ch. 11, digital ch.801

[SunkenCiv]

thanks Blam!

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[SunkenCiv]

Conference to present evidence for Ice Age man in South Carolina
U of South Carolina

The Topper Site, named for forester David Topper who pointed it out years ago, has yielded artifacts that reveal the presence of human beings in the Western Hemisphere 16,000 or more years ago during the last Ice Age. The site is considered to be among the four most important sites in North America for early human being occupation studies.

sorry, I mean to address this shorter one to the list.

The intellectual level of the Clovis-First-and-Only was elegantly summarized by a proponent. Referring to a human artifact found in a Canadian dig, in a strata four thousand years too early, the future laureate said, "any dude could have put that there".

Please FREEPMAIL me if you want on or off the "Gods, Graves, Glyphs" PING list --
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[SunkenCiv]

for those who like genetic studies...

Viruses May Offer New Line of Evidence
Mammoth Trumpet
Vol 11, no 3 (1996)

For example, one type of the virus exists in people living along the Pacific coast of the Americas, he told scientists attending a session on genetic research. Its presence suggests the possibility "that the original settlement of the Americas might have been along an area that is now flooded, and that American Indians moved into both continents simultaneously -- or even South America first." Black said that populations of eastern Siberia do not have the virus, "so they must have come in after the migration to the Americas." Further, he said, the variations of the virus suggest that the three-wave theory of aboriginal settlement of the Americas is not an adequate explanation... Robert Foley of the University of Cambridge said in a presentation delivered by a colleague that genetics can only tell us about past populations that left descendants. Genetics, he noted, reveal nothing about peoples that died out. Applied to the study of early populations of the Americas, for example, Foley's message implies that the range of variation in past populations could be quite different than the range of variation now observed among living Native American populations.

[Pippin]

Thanks for the ping!

I bookmarked this thread to my profile page.

[ForGod'sSake]

It’s so contrary to the last 75 years of research.

So, what's your take on this statement? Did the diggers ignore sites in the past that did not conform to their preconceived notions or what? Maybe I shouldn't be so put out with the bone diggers, but something just doesn't smell right.

FGS

[dixie sass]

Is that going to be on SC PBS?

[blam]

"Is that going to be on SC PBS?"

You missed it, it was on last night.

[SunkenCiv]

Just updating the GGG information, not sending a general distribution.

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[SunkenCiv]

Retracing the footprints of time
by Steve Sandford
September 9, 1996
web archive version

Direct radiocarbon dating of the Calgary site is not possible because the ancient artifacts were not found in conjunction with organic matter, such as bones or decayed plant matter, which is necessary for such testing. Absent such verification, Prof. Young dismisses the find. For one thing, he says, the artifacts are so simple they could merely be naturally-occurring rocks; he says that most informed scientists are doubtful they are tools. And even if they are tools, he adds that there is no way to be sure that they were originally situated where they were found under the gravel, since the site has served as an exposed gravel pit for the last 100 years. Comments Prof. Young: "Any dude could have put that rock there."

[SunkenCiv]

this appears to be the oldest FR topic about Al Goodyear:

Site Sheds Light on Human Arrival
Source: AP via Yahoo
Published: May 26, 2001
Posted on 05/27/2001 06:25:12 PDT by sarcasm
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3b11003848e1.htm