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As a rule, I don't get all excited about archaeological discoveries, but this one caught my attention, since I'm familiar with the site, (it's less than 20 miles from where I live). The most interesting part of it, though, is that it appears to lay to rest the old argument about whether or not the Clovis people were the first humans to set foot in the New World, (North, Central, and South America). The most recent discoveries apparently pre-date the oldest known Clovis sites by about 2,000 years, so obviously, the Clovis people were almost surely descendants of the people who left these artifacts, over 15,000 years ago. This discovery also may cast doubt on the old theory that the first emigrants to this continent crossed a land bridge over the Bering Straits, to get here.
And now back to our regular programming.
Tex
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.
I'm so glad you posted this today - I got all excited when I saw it. I didn't realize it was so close to you. COOL!
Maybe this dramatic and persuasive shake-up of the conventional wisdom in archaeology will set a good example for certain professions who might take a new look at gluten sensitivity, at MC, and diet ;)
The following link is a newsfeed with a lot of redundancy, but it contains a lot of links to other articles, for anyone interested, (at the end of the article):
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.
Interesting, Tex. I didn't know about the Clovis culture.
We live in an astrobleme!
Astrobleme
n.
A scar on the earth's surface left from the impact of a meteorite.
What is the Wetumpka Impact Crater?
Wetumpka, Alabama, sits right on the bull’s eye of the greatest natural disaster in Alabama’s history. The hills just east of Downtown are the eroded remains of a five mile wide meteor Crater that was blasted into the bedrock of Elmore County. The mighty blast occurred near the end of the Age of the Dinosaurs, about 83 million years ago. All around the circular pattern of hills that make up the remaining rim of the crater, the hard rocks of the Piedmont are bent sharply up and pointing toward the center of the impact. The normally horizontal layers of more recent surface rocks are mixed in and around the crater suggesting an incredible explosion that would have destroyed all life for a radius of about forty miles.
We hope they don't strike the same place twice.
DISCLAIMER: I am not a doctor and don't play one on TV.
that real interesting Tex, before reading Jared Diamond'book (horses/steal/germs) I had never heard of Clovic people. In his book he also said that there is still no 100% certainty about the time frame of the first inhabitants on the American continent. So maybe this site may give more clarity or maybe the opposite "the more you know, the more they realize how less they know".
"As the sense of identity shifts from the imaginary person to your real being as presence awareness, the life of suffering dissolves like mist before the rising sun"
Oooh, I might have to send these links to my classmates. I'm an anthropology minor and many of my friends at school are majors, so this is highly interesting.
Tex, some University of Oregon archeologists (I live in Eugene, OR) have also found evidence of a pre-Clovis site in eastern Oregon. And of special interest for the PP, the evidence was in the form of coprolites, or fossilized poop!
Yep, that's convincing evidence. I can vaguely recall reading something about that discovery a couple of years age. Taken together, there should now be enough evidence to convince even the most stubborn doubting Thomases. LOL.
Thanks for the link.
Tex
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.
Thanks for the news flash, Tex. I have been out of town for a funeral (my sister's FIL passed away) and did not hear about it. It always amuses me how scientists of any branch are so sure they are right about something, until they are wrong. Why do they want to "set things in stone" when amazing new discoveries are made everyday?
BTW, for those who liked Jared Diamond's "Guns, Germs, and Steel", I suggest "1491" by Charles C. Mann. It us subtitled "New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus"; it is even more of a head-spinner. I found it to be a much better read, as well.
