http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/clovis/ en-us Mon, 22 Sep 2008 21:06:38 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2087951/posts For some 85 years, homesteaders, pot hunters and archaeologists have been digging at Paisley Caves, a string of shallow depressions washed out of an ancient lava flow by the waves of a lake that comes and goes with the changing climate. Until now, they have found nothing conclusive-arrowheads, baskets, animal bones and sandals made by people who lived thousands of years ago on the shores of what was then a 40-mile-long lake, but is now a sagebrush desert on the northern edge of the Great Basin. But a few years ago, University of Oregon archaeologist Dennis Jenkins and his students... AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2087951/posts#comment Mon, 22 Sep 2008 21:06:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2084423/posts Clovis points are the hallmark of one of America's earliest cultures: the Paleoindians. Since archaeologists found Clovis points lodged in the skeleton of a mammoth, they have viewed Paleoindians as big-game hunters par excellence... This macho view of Paleoindian prehistory has prevailed even though surprisingly little evidence exists to support it. In a study published in the October issue of the Journal of Archaeological Science, Kent State University archaeologist Mark Seeman and several co-researchers wrote of Paleoindian stone tools from the Nobles Pond site in Stark County. They reported the discovery of blood residue on eight Clovis points. Four were... Columbus Dispatch http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2084423/posts#comment Wed, 17 Sep 2008 17:04:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2063562/posts If you will look at the two points illustrated in today's article, the overall outline of each one does not look like the other one. However, both are typical Dalton points. One point has a parallel shaped stem while the other has a concave stem with flaring ears on the base. If the sites of Sloan and Brand in Arkansas and the Big Eddy site in southwestern Missouri had not been successfully excavated, we would not know both types are typical Dalton points dating to the same time period. For instance at the Sloan site in Arkansas, the archeologists recovered... Corsicana Daily Sun http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2063562/posts#comment Mon, 18 Aug 2008 04:36:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2040478/posts Texas Archaeological Dig Challenges Assumptions about First Americans Ancient stone artifacts reveal the day-to-day lives of Clovis people while offering tantalizing clues of an even earlier culture By Elizabeth Lunday Excavations at the Gault site in central Texas. FLORENCE, TEX.—"Look at that—isn't it gorgeous?" Sandy Peck asks as she rinses dirt from a flaked stone about the length and width of a pinky finger. Peck runs a hose over soil on a fine-mesh screen, prodding at stubborn clods of clay with a muddy glove. "Look, there's another one." Peck, sorting soil that had been disturbed by a recent thunderstorm, is... Scientific American http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2040478/posts#comment Thu, 3 Jul 2008 23:12:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2040167/posts Research by a Valparaiso University geography professor and his students on the creation of Kankakee Sand Islands of Northwest Indiana is lending support to evidence that the first humans to settle the Americas came from Europe, a discovery that overturns decades of classroom lessons that nomadic tribes from Asia crossed a Bering Strait land-ice bridge. Valparaiso is a member of the Council on Undergraduate Research..... Science Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2040167/posts#comment Thu, 3 Jul 2008 11:55:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2016537/posts Al Goodyear and the Secrets of the Ancient AmericansUSC Professor Discovers 50,000 Year-Old Artifacts in S.C. BY RON AIKEN It was the summer of 1998, and University of South Carolina archaeologist Al Goodyear had a problem on his hands. Fourteen years of digging at an ancient chert quarry outside Allendale had begun to bear fruit: At a site called Big Pine Tree, Goodyear was well on his way to establishing that a substantial Clovis population lived here. If you’ll recall your history lessons from high school, the Clovis people — named such because the first evidence of them was found... Free Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2016537/posts#comment Thu, 15 May 2008 22:25:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2004555/posts How deep should we look for evidence of first Americans? By Bill Young Three sites in Texas have been discovered and at least partially excavated in the past 15 years yielding evidence of at least one culture older than Clovis. Most of the Clovis sites have been firmly dated to around 12,500 to 13,000 years ago. Not only did these Clovis sites yield projectile points of the very distinct Clovis type, the sites also yielded true blades and very large well- made thin preforms diagnostic of only the Clovis people. The archeologists who have worked at some of these Clovis... Corsicana Daily Sun http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2004555/posts#comment Mon, 21 Apr 2008 02:20:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1995951/posts Hold the potty humor, please, but archaeologists digging in a dusty cave in Oregon have unearthed fossilized feces that appear to be oldest biological evidence of humans in North America. The ancient poop dates back 14,300 years. If the results hold up, that means the continent was populated more than 1,000 years before the so-called Clovis culture, long believed to be the first Americans. "This adds to a growing body of evidence that the human presence in the Americas predates Clovis," said Michael Waters, an anthropologist at Texas A&M University who was not involved in the project. DNA analysis of... Seattle Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1995951/posts#comment Thu, 3 Apr 2008 10:34:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1987200/posts Clovis Overkill Didn't Wipe Out California's Sea Duck Newswise — Clovis-age natives, often noted for overhunting during their brief dominance in a primitive North America, deserve clemency in the case of California's flightless sea duck. New evidence says it took thousands of years for the duck to die out. A team of six scientists, including Jon M. Erlandson of the University of Oregon, pronounced their verdict in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (online, March 13) after holding court on thousands of years of archaeological testimony taken from bones of the extinct sea duck uncovered from 14 sites... Newswise http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1987200/posts#comment Mon, 17 Mar 2008 21:18:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1908036/posts Site provides evidence for ancient comet explosion JOEY HOLLEMAN; McClatchy Newspapers Published: October 7th, 2007 01:00 AM COLUMBIA, S.C. – For the second time in less than a decade, a South Carolina river bluff holds evidence pointing to a theory with history-rewriting potential. Microscopic soil particles from the Topper site near Allendale might hold a tiny key to a big theory: that comet-caused explosions wiped out the mammoths and mastodons, prompted the last ice age and decimated the first human culture in North America about 12,900 years ago. The comet theory first began generating a buzz at an international meeting... The News Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1908036/posts#comment Mon, 8 Oct 2007 05:07:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1902361/posts Wooly mammoths, giant sloths, saber-toothed cats, and dozens of other species of megafauna may have become extinct when a disintegrating comet or asteroid exploded over North America with the force of millions of hydrogen bombs, according to research by an international team of scientists. The blast, which the researchers believe occurred 12,900 years ago, may have also doomed a mysterious early human culture, known as Clovis people, while triggering a planetwide cool-down that wiped out the plant species that sustained many outsize Ice Age beasts, according to research published online yesterday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Boston Globe http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1902361/posts#comment Wed, 26 Sep 2007 13:11:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1902154/posts Wooly mammoths, giant sloths, saber-toothed cats, and dozens of other species of megafauna may have become extinct when a disintegrating comet or asteroid exploded over North America with the force of millions of hydrogen bombs, according to research by an international team of scientists. The blast, which the researchers believe occurred 12,900 years ago, may have also doomed a mysterious early human culture, known as Clovis people, while triggering a planetwide cool-down that wiped out the plant species that sustained many outsize Ice Age beasts, according to research published online yesterday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Boston Globe http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1902154/posts#comment Wed, 26 Sep 2007 01:45:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1887843/posts Constructing the Solutrean Solution Dennis Stanford and Bruce Bradley Smithsonian Institution University of Exeter At the 1999 Clovis and Beyond Conference held in Santa Fe, we presented a hypothesis, now known as the "Solutrean Solution", to explain the origin of Clovis technology. The hypothesis is based on the fact that there is little commonality between Clovis and Northeast Asian technologies on the one hand, while on the other, there are many technological traits shared between Clovis and the Solutrean culture of Paleolithic Europe. In the past, scholars have rejected the idea of a historical connection between the two cultures because... Clovis In The Southeast.Net (Smithsonian) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1887843/posts#comment Tue, 28 Aug 2007 18:34:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1885252/posts The Hubbard family of Clovis has lost a second son to the war in Iraq, according to the Clovis Police Department. Army Specialist Nathan Hubbard, 21, was killed while serving his country. The military has not yet released any details surrounding Hubbard’s death. The Hubbard family received notification of his death Wednesday afternoon. In 2004, Nathan's brother Lance Corporal Jared Hubbard and his childhood friend Jeremiah Baro were killed in action near Ramadi in November of 2004. Both Nathan and a third brother, Jason Hubbard, joined the the Army in 2005 following Jared's death. KSEE-TV24, Fresno http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1885252/posts#comment Thu, 23 Aug 2007 06:49:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1876220/posts June 28, 2007 Comet theory collides with Clovis research, may explain disappearance of ancient people A theory put forth by a group of 25 geo-scientists suggests that a massive comet exploded over Canada, possibly wiping out both beast and man around 12,900 years ago, and pushing the earth into another ice age. University of South Carolina archaeologist Dr. Albert Goodyear said the theory may not be such "out-of-this-world" thinking based on his study of ancient stone-tool artifacts he and his team have excavated from the Topper dig site in Allendale, as well as ones found in Georgia, North Carolina and... University of South Carolina(USC News) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1876220/posts#comment Sat, 4 Aug 2007 06:29:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1840136/posts mammoth some 12,900 years ago. A team of two dozen scientists say the culprit was likely a comet that exploded in the atmosphere above North America. The explosions sent a heat and shock wave across the continent, pelted the ground with a layer of telltale debris, ignited massive wildfires and triggered a major cooling of the climate, said nuclear analytic chemist Richard Firestone of Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, one of the scientists who presented the controversial new theory Thursday at a conference of the American Geophysical Union in Acapulco. At least 15 species, mostly large mammals including mammoths, mastadons, giant ground... Red Orbit http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1840136/posts#comment Sat, 26 May 2007 13:12:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1838660/posts Contact: Jim Barlow jebarlow@uoregon.edu 541-346-3481 University of Oregon Oregon researchers involved in new Clovis-age impact theory Did a comet hit the Great Lakes region and fragment human populations 12,900 years ago? Two University of Oregon researchers are on a multi-institutional 26-member team proposing a startling new theory: that an extraterrestrial impact, possibly a comet, set off a 1,000-year-long cold spell and wiped out or fragmented the prehistoric Clovis culture and a variety of animal genera across North America almost 13,000 years ago. Driving the theory is a carbon-rich layer of soil that has been found, but not definitively explained, at... Eureka Alert http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1838660/posts#comment Wed, 23 May 2007 21:30:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1837610/posts Catastrophic Comet Chilled and Killed Ice Age Beasts Jeanna Bryner LiveScience Staff Writer LiveScience.com Mon May 21, 9:30 AM ET An extraterrestrial object with a three-mile girth might have exploded over southern Canada nearly 13,000 years ago, wiping out an ancient Stone Age culture as well as megafauna like mastodons and mammoths. The blast could be to blame for a major cold spell called the Younger Dryas that occurred at the end of the Pleistocene Epoch, a period of time spanning from about 1.8 million years ago to 11,500 years ago. Research, presented today at a meeting of the American... Live Science http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1837610/posts#comment Tue, 22 May 2007 05:16:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1808876/posts Archeologist, homeowner at odds over spear point Wednesday, March 28, 2007 This Clovis spearhead is believed to be 11,000 years old. A find of an 11,000-year-old Clovis spearhead has an archeologist up in arms because the owner of the site does not want any further research conducted. By Melonie Magruder / Special to The Malibu Times The discovery of a Clovis spearhead, believed to be thousands of years old, at a local home construction site has the homeowner and an archeologist at odds on what should be done with the site. The property owner wants to finish her home and... Malibu Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1808876/posts#comment Thu, 29 Mar 2007 20:45:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1805918/posts SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 800 PM MDT FRI MAR 23 2007 ...TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHEASTERN CURRY COUNTY UNTIL 815 PM MDT... AT 758 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR AND SKYWARN SPOTTERS WERE TRACKING A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED IN CLOVIS...MOVING NORTH AT 25 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... RANCHVALE AROUND 815 PM MDT... A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM MDT FRIDAY EVENING FOR EAST CENTRAL NEW MEXICO. National Weather Service http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1805918/posts#comment Sat, 24 Mar 2007 02:07:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1789921/posts The Clovis people, known for their distinctive spear points, likely were not the first humans in the Americas, according to research placing their presence as more recent than previously believed. Using advanced radiocarbon dating techniques, researchers writing in the journal Science on Thursday said the Clovis people, hunters of large Ice Age animals like mammoths and mastodons, dated from about 13,100 to 12,900 years ago. That would make the Clovis culture, known from artifacts discovered at various sites including the town of Clovis, New Mexico, both younger and shorter-lived than previously thought. Previous estimates had dated the culture to about... yahoo...Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1789921/posts#comment Fri, 23 Feb 2007 17:34:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1691999/posts Aug 29, 2006 - Shots have been fired near Fresno State University, around the area of Cedar and Barstow. There are reports that an Officer has been shot, but it is not confirmed at this point. KSEE TV http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1691999/posts#comment Tue, 29 Aug 2006 17:54:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1671134/posts Terrestrial Evidence of a Nuclear Catastrophe in Paleoindian Times by Richard B. Firestone & William Topping The Paleoindian occupation of North America, theoretically the point of entry of the first people to the Americas, is traditionally assumed to have occurred within a short time span beginning at about 12,000 yr B.P. This is inconsistent with much older South American dates of around 32,000 yr B.P.1 and the similarity of the Paleoindian toolkit to Mousterian traditions that disappeared about 30,000 years ago.2. A pattern of unusually young radiocarbon dates in the Northeast has been noted by Bonnichsen and Will.3,4 Our research... Mammoth Trumpet http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1671134/posts#comment Mon, 24 Jul 2006 07:03:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1640252/posts De Miller's Webpage http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1640252/posts#comment Mon, 29 May 2006 20:47:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1637150/posts The First Americans By Sharon Begley and Andrew Murr Newsweek, April 26, 1999 New digs and old bones reveal an ancient land that was a mosaic of peoples—including Asians and Europeans. Now a debate rages: who got here first? 'Skull wars:' Facial reconstruction of the 'Spirit Cave Man,' based on bones found in Spirit Cave, Churchill County, Nevada (David Barry--Courtesy Nevada State Museum; facial reconstruction by Sharon Long) As he sat down to his last meal amid the cattails and sedges on the shore of the ancient lake, the frail man grimaced in agony. A fracture at his left temple... Abotech http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1637150/posts#comment Tue, 23 May 2006 23:30:48 GMT