http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/clovis/ en-us Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:13:24 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2387570/posts The secret is out: Man and gomphotheres once coexisted in Sonora. Tools and spear tips found with fossil bones at a remote Sonoran site suggest that Clovis-era hunters butchered two juvenile specimens of the elephantlike megafauna about 13,000 years ago. It's the first discovery of such recent evidence of gomphotheres in North America, said Vance Holliday, a University of Arizona anthropologist. It's also the first time gomphothere fossils were found together with implements made by Clovis people, the oldest known inhabitants of North America, Holliday said. The discovery, on a remote ranch in the Rio Sonora watershed, was actually made... Arizona Daily Star http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2387570/posts#comment Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:13:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2379655/posts Archaeologists claim to have found the oldest known artefact in the Americas, a scraper-like tool in an Oregon cave that dates back 14,230 years. Nature.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2379655/posts#comment Fri, 6 Nov 2009 02:37:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2379470/posts The bed of artefacts in the state of Sonora in northwest Mexico also includes the bones of an extinct cousin of the mastodon called a gomphothere. The beast was probably hunted and killed by the Clovis people, known for their distinctive spear points, who mysteriously disappeared within about 500 years of leaving their first archeological traces. Intact Clovis camp sites and extensive evidence of hunting has been found across the United States, with the highest concentration of sites just north of the Mexican border, in the San Pedro River basin of southeastern Arizona. But relatively little is known about their... Nature http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2379470/posts#comment Thu, 5 Nov 2009 22:29:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2361358/posts No evidence of an extraterrestrial impact 13,000 years ago, studies say. An independent study has cast more doubt on a controversial theory that a comet exploded over icy North America nearly 13,000 years ago, wiping out the Clovis people and many of the continent's large animals.Sediments at the San Jon site, in eastern New Mexico, contained very low abundances of magnetic spherules said to be evidence of an impact.Vance Holliday Archaeologists have examined sediments at seven Clovis-age sites across the United States, and did not find enough magnetic cosmic debris to confirm that an extraterrestrial impact happened at that time,... Nature http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2361358/posts#comment Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:08:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2322146/posts "The suit says the district violates the constitution in a variety of ways, including requiring students or their parents to pay fees in order to take part in curricular or extra-curricular activities in such areas as sports, cheerleading, band and choir." KMJ 580 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2322146/posts#comment Sat, 22 Aug 2009 18:25:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2299740/posts Researchers have found shock-synthesized hexagonal diamonds on one of California's Channel Islands, which they say is the strongest evidence yet that a comet exploded in the atmosphere above North America, causing widespread extinctions there around 12,900 years ago... In 2007 researchers theorized that a comet set off continental fires that led to the mysterious disappearance of the Clovis people and the extermination of 35 mammal genera, including mammoths, mastodons, ground sloths and camels. The team documented a "black mat" of charcoal throughout North America that contains high levels of iridium, magnetic spheres, and nano-diamonds, which are consistent with such an... Scientific American http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2299740/posts#comment Fri, 24 Jul 2009 02:00:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2297700/posts "These findings are inconsistent with the alternative and already hotly debated theory that overhunting by Clovis people led to the rapid extinction of large mammals at the end of the ice age, the research team argues in the PNAS paper." Science News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2297700/posts#comment Tue, 21 Jul 2009 20:09:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2261523/posts Migrating peoples were sophisticated in sea harvesting, Jon Erlandson says The Pacific Coast of the Americas was settled starting about 15,000 years ago during the last glacial retreat by seafaring peoples following a "kelp highway" rich in marine resources, a noted professor of anthropology theorized Wednesday. Jon Erlandson, director of the Museum of Natural and Cultural History at the University of Oregon, suggested that especially productive "sweet spots," such as the estuaries of B.C.'s Fraser and Stikine rivers, served as corridors by which people settled the Interior of the province. Erlandson said in an interview these migrating peoples were already... Vancouver Sun http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2261523/posts#comment Sun, 31 May 2009 07:09:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2194066/posts Cache of tools found in Boulder yard used to butcher ice-age camels, horses. The “chink” of the impact sounded odd, so the crew poked around, and just 18 inches beneath the soil surface they made an extraordinary find: 83 stone tools left in a cache 13,000 years ago by people who used the sharpened rocks to butcher ice-age camels. “Sometimes they’re interesting things, and sometimes they’re just cool rocks,” said Bamforth, who studies the culture and tools of Paleoindians, who lived in the Boulder area at the end of the last ice age. But a good anthropologist leaves no rock... Daily Camera http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2194066/posts#comment Wed, 25 Feb 2009 23:28:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2195048/posts Landscapers were digging a hole for a fish pond in the front yard of a Boulder home last May when they heard a "chink" that didn't sound right. Just some lost tools. Some 13,000-year-old lost tools. They had stumbled onto a cache of more than 83 ancient tools buried by the Clovis people — ice age hunter-gatherers who remain a puzzle to anthropologists. The home's owner, Patrick Mahaffy, thought they were only a century or two old before contacting researchers at the University of Colorado-Boulder. "My jaw just dropped," said CU anthropologist Douglas Bamforth, who is leading a study of... news.yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2195048/posts#comment Fri, 27 Feb 2009 01:30:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2157721/posts Abundant tiny particles of diamond dust exist in sediments dating to 12,900 years ago at six North American sites, adding strong evidence for Earth's impact with a rare swarm of carbon-and-water-rich comets or carbonaceous chondrites, reports a nine-member scientific team. These nanodiamonds, which are produced under high-temperature, high-pressure conditions created by cosmic impacts and have been found in meteorites, are concentrated in similarly aged sediments at Murray Springs, Ariz., Bull Creek, Okla., Gainey, Mich., and Topper, S.C., as well as Lake Hind, Manitoba, and Chobot, Alberta, in Canada. Nanodiamonds can be produced on Earth, but only through high-explosive detonations or... www.physorg.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2157721/posts#comment Fri, 2 Jan 2009 18:44:35 GMT 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