Posted on 01/25/2007 3:47:01 PM PST by blam
GGG Ping.
"The Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe still manages the program, which added a crew of high school students in 2008.
The International Archaeological Society has just concluded its first North American.....scheduled to coincide with the town's annual fall celebration, Walker Mammoth Days — changed from "Ethnic Fest" in 2009."
Just wondering. Did we go past 2008 and 2009 already. My Calandar says this January of '07.
One note, the 2,000,000 year long period of glaciation is interspersed with numerous "interglacials" where ALL the ice around that site would have melted away. These interglacials may be as short as about 10,000 years, or as long as 35,000 years ~ depending on a number of astrophysical orientations.
I have an arrowhead from the same period ~ it was brought up with material from a well on the Eastside of Indianapolis that penetrated to the "surface" prior to the last glaciation in that area.
Wisconsin may not be the only area to provide habitat suitible for life in that era.
MN ping.
15,000 year old geocaching?
BTTT
Organic materials they used, such as bone, wood, and fibers, have not survived.
This statement always brings my interest in a story to a grinding halt.
No corroborating evidence has survived, yet someone can take a leap of enthusiasm and described how the ancient groups behaved, based on the presence of chipped rocks and pebbles, created naturally.
I have never read a convincing explanation as to how these enthusiasts separate the naturally chipped stone never used as tools from the ones that might have been used as tools, absent other evidence.
Remember that it is the Ojibwe who have the highest (25%) percent of the X-haplogroup in all the Americas.
They also have A+ blood too ~
I get a kick that they now have to reroute the road. Of course, if no Federal Funds are spent on the road (county?/city?) then they won't need an archaeologist so they won't run into any artifacts.
Some archaeologists spend the bulk of their careers studying stone tools.
One of my professors used to scour dry creek and river bottoms and other places where rocks grind together looking for natural "tools" to use as teaching aids. He had a room full of them.
On the other hand you have clear living or activity sites, and from them you can get bushels of real tools.
Spend a few decades comparing the two, including such things as using hi-tech tools like electron microscopes to check for edge wear, etc., and you can come up with a lot of information on stone tools. That lets the experts look at a new collection such as this and render a pretty informed opinion.
related:
Tools Found In Walker, May Be 14,000 Years Old
WCCO-TV | Friday, January 12, 2007 | Associated Press
Posted on 01/12/2007 11:34:52 AM EST by SunkenCiv
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Well, FWIW, their "explanation" seems to yield more questions than answers in my mind(such as it is). But I'll leave it be; it just ain't worth the effort...
If it hadn't been for that killing GLOBAL WARMING, we would never had discovered this place!
What we have are caribou and seal hunters who chowed down all the way from Spain to America, and then dined from somewhere near Sable Island all the way to Wisconsin.
Yes...after all that meat, they were ready for some cheese.
Cool. Reminds me of an old site in western PA that has been undergoing archaeological excavation for several decades, Meadowcroft Shelter at Avella PA (Washington County).
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