[SunkenCiv]

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• Did comet start deadly cold snap?
• Ancient American Skeleton Has European DNA Link
• Did first Americans come from Europe?
• 'Scientific American' Shines Spotlight On SC Dig (Topper Site - TV Tonight)
• Iberia, Not Siberia
• Immigrants From The Other Side (Clovis Is Solutrean?)
• Peopling Of The Americas: Late Date for Siberian Site Challenges Bering Pathway
• Vintage Skulls

[dware]

Unfortunate name for a state park...

[Boogieman]

I’m sorry, I’m still laughing that we have a state park called “Big Bone Lick”.

[JoeProBono]

[SES1066]

Big Bone Lick State Park is in Kentucky just east of the Ohio River and due south of the Indiana-Ohio border. Like many other post ice age settlements, being near a major river offered a lot of advantage in diversified food sources while being safely away from major flooding.

As far as dating human habitation in the Western Hemisphere, I believe that the closest analogy is how geo-physicist treated plate tectonics until the older scientists finally died out or were convinced. I clearly remember 'settled science' that the earliest paleo-indian populations in the modern US were the Clovis People in New Mexico area about 11,200 BC.

Now we are finding sites like this and others scattered in many US places and down south as far as Chile. Well accepted dates predate Clovis by 1,000+ years and some estimates GREATLY exceed those dates. Something to remember is that it takes TIME to build populations, especially for very scattered nomadic populations.

[WMarshal]

“Big Bone Lick State Park”

Who says that government types lack a sense of humor.

[Bodleian_Girl]

May I be on your ping list?

[WayneS]

It’s mine.

I’ve been trying to find that spear tip for a very long time..

PS - as proof of ownership I offer the following: I am right-handed.

[Some Fat Guy in L.A.]

I’ve been to that park. “Lick” is apparently local for “crick”, and there are lots of bones found there. Still makes you wonder how many tourists from San Francisco make the trip east in eager anticipation, only to have their desires dashed.