Posted on 03/06/2011 6:20:20 PM PST by americanophile
People are discovering antique fishing tackle all the time, in closets and at garage sales, but none of that compares to discoveries made recently by archaeologists at two of the Channel Islands off Southern California.
Looking for signs of ancient human settlement, they unearthed meticulously-crafted spearheads and other tools (see photo at right) that date back 12,000 years and provide insight into the lives of a seafaring culture that obtained bounty from the ocean.
The astonishing discoveries, at three sites on Santa Rosa and San Miguel islands west of Santa Barbara, strongly support the theory that during an era when the first traces of humans appeared in the archaeological record in North America, a coastal culture existed that was distinct from the well-chronicled inland Clovis culture, which consisted of big-game hunters who subsisted on mastodons and other large mammals.
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Ping!
Watch —skulls there will show primitive blonde Swedes, thereby making Indians into illegal aliens.
And then it will all get covered up, per Kennewick Man...!
^_^
12,000 years ago would be the Paleo Period and those artifacts are more Archaic. I believe they have the dates wrong.
A club, a rock, a sling shot, a spear, an arrow...
Where’s the 12,000 yr old cooler?
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Made in China?
A club, a rock, a sling shot, a spear, an arrow...
A ballot...
Archaic culture has to arrive some time ~ so why not 12000 years go BEFORE the Younger Dryas. We know Clovis went into deep decline, but other cultures that’d managed to penetrate all the way to South America didn’t.
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Is it really so hard to scroll down the main page just a few links down and see that this has already been posted just 15 minute earlier?
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12,000 years old? Hell, have these guys been rummaging through my tackle box again?
I will NEVER buy in to the “survived by eating mammoths” BS.
You know what they called the first guy in the hunting party who got near a mammoth?
They called him Dead!!
Look, an American bison is piddly compared to a mammoth. And I agree, Native Americans were able to take some bison.
But they NEVER would have been able to wipe them out without the horse and the gun.
It is not a coincidence that the mammoths disappeared at the same time a huge number of North American animals disappeared.
And probably from the same cause. Evidence is growing it was a cometary impact (or aerial explosion) a bit southwest of Lake Superior about 13,500 years ago.
I’m convinced humans could hunt mammoth, I disagree we had anything to do with extinction of them.
What I’m looking at is the shift from the larger and heavier percussion made atlatl projectiles of the paleo period to the more refined and pressure flaked projectiles of the archaic period when bow’s were in use.
When were bows in use? Dates I have are like 800 AD for Woodland Indians. That’s pretty coincident with the arrival of quetzelcoatl ~ try: http://books.google.com/books?id=qsYMEwmNP34C&pg=PA58&lpg=PA58&dq=bows+and+arrows+arrive+in+America&source=bl&ots=AJtmk6mlcq&sig=c4aIRSP-XYsLjXTlE9Im4PVkctM&hl=en&ei=ndJ0TYrzBIn4gAeorKGiAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBcQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=bows%20and%20arrows%20arrive%20in%20America&f=false
I agree on the archaic morphology...
I went to an archaeological site this summer where the Native Americans drove hundreds of thousands of buffalo over a cliff. I agree that in a spear to mammoth fight a mammoth would win but these guys were smart an most likely used unconventional tactics to take down their prey. Why had the big game animals lived through so many periods of glaciation and then when humans showed up they all died out? I think humans had a role in these extinctions.
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