[blam]

"This is the most important archaeological site in the United States and it's right here in North Port's backyard."

I don't believe this.

[blam]

GGG Ping.

The title makes no sense.

[Ed Condon]

Gee, a 9000 year old plastic container. I guess they don’t decompose.

[Jaysun]

I’m sorry to piss on the parade but zip-lock bags are less than 100 years old.

[xcamel]

Not the first spring in FL to contain artifacts > 10,000 y/o

[petertare]

Confusing at best. A campground, underwater? I did not realize scuba was that ancient.

[A_Tradition_Continues]

What? Did they find an old snowbird’s white Lebaron in a mall parking lot?

[Coyoteman]

"This is the most important archaeological site in the United States and it's right here in North Port's backyard."

I don't believe this.

Maybe it is, maybe it isn't.

I didn't see the results of any radiocarbon dating in the article. There was no reference to a journal article or published report. In fact the article was short on a lot of the technical detail I would like to see.

I think I'll wait before agreeing that this site is the "most important archaeological site in the United States."

[Musketeer]

Has anyone carbon dated a fresh cadaver or fallen log lately? Just curious seeing the results.

[fight_truth_decay]

ROCK ON!

The oldest petroglyphs are dated to approx. the Neolithic and late Upper Paleolithic boundary--- 10,000 to 12,000 years ago. Around 7,000 to 9,000 years ago, other writing systems such as pictographs and ideograms began to be shown. Call it the ancient "gallery" opening where food and drink was enjoyed by all. Petroglyphs were still common though, and some less advanced societies (the beer drinkers) continued using them much longer usually on rock walls where one went to relieve oneself, until contact with Western culture (the more uppity lofty SoHo Capote crowd) was made in the 20th century.

Petroglyphs have been found in all parts of the globe except Antarctica (partly because of global warming, and partly because of no talent) with highest concentrations in parts of Africa, Scandinavia, Siberia, southwestern North America and Australia.

;)

[Brad from Tennessee]

Anything dated to 12,000 ago puts it in the last ice age. Divers have found sites with human artifacts off the Florida coast which at one time were on dry land during the ice age.

[Brad from Tennessee]

Another site on ice age Florida artifacts:

http://dhr.dos.state.fl.us/facts/reports/contexts/paleo.cfm

[DBrow]

About 12,000 years ago, as the most recent Ice Age was ending, sea level went up about 400 meters in a few hundred years. Any people living near any coast would have had to move repeatedly as the coast moved.

Especially in Florida, anything that old is likely underwater now. So finding people-related stuff in 30-40 foot water is not hat surprising.

There are people looking for archaeological sites in the Gulf of Mexico, and I heard that some research is starting in the Long Island Sound, because 10,000 years ago it was a valley where native Americans probably lived.

[LiteKeeper]

YEC INTREP

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Blam.

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