Fluted Spear Points Prove Early Native Americans Liked to Travel

SciNews ^ | April 3, 2018 | News Staff / Source

[SunkenCiv]

Analyses of numerous spear points with fluted edges found in northern Alaska and Yukon, and artifacts from further south in Canada, the Great Plains, and eastern United States, prove that the Ice Age peopling of the Americas was much more complex than previously believed... "Using new digital methods of analyses utilized for the first time in such a study of these artifacts, we found that early settlers in the emerging ice-free corridor of interior western Canada were traveling north to Alaska, not south from Alaska, as previously interpreted," said co-author Professor Ted Goebel, an anthropologist with Texas A&M University. "Although during the late Ice Age there were two possible routes for the first Americans to follow on their migration from the Bering Land Bridge area southward to temperate North America, it now looks like only the Pacific coastal route was used, while the interior Canadian route may not have been fully explored until millennia later, and when it was, primarily from the south." ...newer genetic studies of ancient Siberians, Alaskans, and Americans, as well as the discovery of new sites south of the Canadian ice sheets predating the opening of the ice-free corridor, suggest instead that the first Americans passed along the Pacific coast.

[SunkenCiv]

Map showing extent of glacial ice at 12,000 and 11,000 years ago, examples of regional fluted-point forms, and inferred dispersal directions of fluted-point technological groups from a Clovis ‘heartland’ north into the Ice-Free Corridor and Beringia, east to the northern Great Lakes and far Northeast, and back to the northwest along the southern edge of the Laurentide ice sheet. Clovis existed in the American Southeast, too, but points from this region were not included in the present analysis. Image credit: Heather L. Smith & Ted Goebel, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1800312115.

[SunkenCiv]

IOW, landlubbers continue their same old line of bull, merely moving the very same path offshore but within sight of land..

[a fool in paradise]

Or they liked flutes

[SunkenCiv]

Musical spears... “Ring around the rosie, a pocket full of spears...”

[Sacajaweau]

Some of the earliest books say all the North American Indians came from Canada. I guess we need some definition of “Native”.

[cranked]

Is this not a Captain Obvious moment here. I mean, geez, did we not already know that Native Americans migrated...a lot, and covering great distances at times?

[IronJack]

Cue up Johnny Horton: North! To Alaska!

[chajin]

we found that early settlers in the emerging ice-free corridor of interior western Canada were traveling north to Alaska, not south from Alaska

North to Alaska

[chajin]

beat me by ONE SECOND

[Leep]

Sooooo...they didn’t use guns to kill things?

[jerod]

Precontact indigenous people north of the Rio Grande were all stone age... No metal whatsoever. So how can they tell when they come upon a precontact site that they are looking at something that is thousands of years old, or maybe just 700 years old? They were essentially stuck in a time machine that didn’t move forward. For humans everywhere else on the planet, the stone age ended about 8 thousand years before advent of Christ. For native people in the northern part of North America, including much of the Pacific Coast, it didn’t end until Europeans arrived.

Regardless... I prefer the fluted spearhead.

[IronJack]

Goin’ north; the rush is on!

[Wuli]

“Liked to travel” is a stupid statement, whether said merely by the editors, and worse if said by the “scientists”.

No doubt the travel routes of early North American inhabitants, and how widespread certain same-type of artifacts are found IS a part of the forensic record they left.

It is a giant leap to attach emotions, and anything but some what those people saw as some attribute of necessity to “why” they trekked where they did.

To say they merely “liked to travel” the idiot scientists better wait until they have the “audio tape”.

[bert]

“Distance is not a problem” Stephen Lekson

[Mr Radical]

"much more complex than previously believed"

Isn't everthing?

It would have been so much easier to unravel if they had backed up all their stuff to the cloud, like these good folks:

The fellow on the left is probably asking, "Is it legal?" But at least they've got the wim'n busy while the boys go huntin' and fishin'.

[chajin]

Goin’ north; the rush is on!

Until I pulled up that YouTube link this morning, I had spent the whole of my cognizant life (I was six when the movie was released in 1960) thinking that the lyrics of the chorus were, "North, to Alaska! I'm goin' north to Russia's own," a reference to the nation from this we purchased Alaska in 1867.

But then again, it was many years before I knew that "Blinded by the Light" was referring to a Buick Century 225...

[Arm_Bears]

Fluted Spear Points Prove Early Native Americans Immigrants to North American Continent Liked to Travel

Fixed it.

[Conan the Librarian]

I’ve seen the Clovis point they dug up in Macon, Ga. It’s at the Ocmulgee site there.

[Hot Tabasco]

Early Native Americans Liked to Travel

I'll believe it when I see their suitcases and the typical destination T-shirts.......

[ApplegateRanch]

Let’s ask the pre-Clovis how uncontrolled illegal immigration worked out for them.