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Post by parfive on May 13, 2016 23:32:04 GMT -5
www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/underwater-site-shows-snowbirds-hit-florida-14-500-years-ago-n573836
Abstract: Stone tools and mastodon bones occur in an undisturbed geological context at the Page-Ladson site, Florida. Seventy-one radiocarbon ages show that ~14,550 calendar years ago (cal yr B.P.), people butchered or scavenged a mastodon next to a pond in a bedrock sinkhole within the Aucilla River. This occupation surface was buried by ~4 m of sediment during the late Pleistocene marine transgression, which also left the site submerged. Sporormiella and other proxy evidence from the sediments indicate that hunter-gatherers along the Gulf Coastal Plain coexisted with and utilized megafauna for ~2000 years before these animals became extinct at ~12,600 cal yr B.P. Page-Ladson expands our understanding of the earliest colonizers of the Americas and human-megafauna interaction before extinction.
advances.sciencemag.org/content/2/5/e1600375.full
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Post by Deleted on May 14, 2016 11:07:51 GMT -5
Super cool Rich. I always wondered if the ancients ate those big stuff. Wonder how the sabre tooth cats and dire wolves played into the fabric of life back then...
Thank you for sharing.
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Post by mohs on May 14, 2016 14:21:20 GMT -5
it is amazing how lightly the native American walked the face of the earth.
I always wondered why?
Why didn’t they build huge agricultural civilizations?
Why didn’t they enter their own bronze age?
Why didn’t they leave a written abstract language?
Such as the Hebrews or Ancient Greece ect al…?
My best guess is that they only inhabited the New World for relatively short period of time.
They didn't have enough time.
Although they came from the same ancient roots of previous humanity---
their hunter/gatherer ways remained prevalent.
Yes, South America started civilizing organization with stoned structures such as pyramids ect….
And the central plains Indians had large organized activities.
Even the Arizona HoHoKam did unbelievable agriculture astute canal works.
But none ever really reached the force of the European cultural centers.
Why?
Even though history shows they were here way back
they seem to have resisted large scale organizing.
Maybe, they were just to wise?
Perhaps they knew that large scale agricultural centers, with metallurgy,
and all that comes with that…. was ultimately…
a dead end path?
Nothing but hierarchal political crap & wars!
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Then the settlers came
hallelujah
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Post by grayfingers on May 14, 2016 16:33:53 GMT -5
Nice article! I would like to try mastodon backstrap. My favorite caveman flick...
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Post by mohs on May 14, 2016 17:00:28 GMT -5
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