Miniature Clovis point from Water Canyon.
Posted on 03/20/2016 5:57:23 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Shaggy, heavy-shouldered bison... made a tempting target for the hunters who walked the empty landscape between 9,000 and 13,000 years ago. The bison were attracted to a lush landscape west of Socorro, New Mexico where wetlands created by mountain runoff stretched across hundreds of acres. The hunters were attracted to the bison...
At Water Canyon Dello-Russo and his collaborators have found spear and/or atlatl (throwing stick) points from the Clovis people, who hunted here more than 13,000 years ago, from the Folsom people who hunted here more than 12,000 years ago, from the Cody Complex hunters who butchered bison and left the bones around 10,800 years ago, and from the late Paleo-Indian people who hunted across this landscape around 9,200 years ago, and also left bones from butchered bison. Dello-Russo and his collaborators have also found gypsum points from the Middle to Late Archaic people.
They don't yet know precisely how many generations of hunters found prey at this spot. As a historical comparison, the Paleo-Indian hunters roamed the landscape between 12,000 and 8,000 years before the Ancestral Native Americans built Chaco Canyon, another famous archeological site in the state...
Blackwater Draw or the Clovis Site, in eastern New Mexico is the first site in the state where it could be documented that generations of Paleo-Indian hunters successfully hunted and killed their prey at one place on the landscape, and then returned to the place again and again. Water Canyon, west of Socorro appears to be the second...
Dello-Russo also found something at the Water Canyon site called a "black mat" – a buried, but intact layer of sediment with a high degree of organic matter that represents the remains of the prehistoric wetland. It includes decomposed plants, pollen, snails [etc] ...
(Excerpt) Read more at phys.org ...
Miniature Clovis point from Water Canyon.
Flood, Fire, and Famine
in the History of Civilization
by Richard Firestone,
Allen West, and
Simon Warwick-Smith
I bet those bison were delicious
Interesting1 Thanks for the post SunkenCiv.
Looks a lot like Velikovsky to me. Likely very interesting.
http://www.immanuelvelikovsky.com/
Nice article. I had to lookup “gypsum points”, as I could not imagining anyone trying to use gypsum as a weapon point, no matter how easy it is to carve.
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They're down the road from me in the Land Grant.
Down the road a ways.
"Lovelock, Nevada, is about eighty miles northeast of Reno. It was in a cave near here, in 1911, that guano miners found mummies, bones, and artifacts buried under four feet of bat excrement. The desiccated bodies belonged to a very tall people - with red hair. "
This is not the same black mat. This is wetland organics mixed in the soil, not a catastrophic burn layer with micro diamonds and other bolide debris.
Mmmm, bison.
Scientists: Bison in Illinois earlier (aren’t you relieved?) [2005]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1476377/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/bison/index
Been there. Sadly the site has been picked clean.
Thanks glee’ — still worked as a flimsy pretext to post the book link though. ;’)
Gypsum Point sounds like the place where the teenagers park to watch the drywall boats go by.
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