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Well, Clovis-First is already slim to slimmer, but these footprints may not be as old as claimed. I sure was excited, and hoped it was upheld. I understand the original authors have responded, defending the dating of the aquatic plants. Different dating methods are likely needed…. https://www.dri.ed...

I have not read the entirety of this thread, but have looked at PointBlank’s offerings. From 65 years experience handling stone artifacts it’s pretty apparent that most of PointBlank’s more questionable offerings show no signs of human manufacture at all. Zero. In many cases, his rocks don’t even qu...

Sandstone effigy from Rhode Island. Pecked and ground into shape… D322B1D3-1FFC-4E81-9E21-B03929BAD41F.png Looks humanoid, but it’s also a frog with front feet in leaping position… D322B1D3-1FFC-4E81-9E21-B03929BAD41F.png I’ll need to do a better job with photos by the looks of it….but from angle be...

The item is made of fossilised mastodon bone from the Pliocene period, 5.2 million to 2.5 million years ago. Its Providence is from an old Bristol palaeontological collection. Although believed to be carved when the mastodon bone was already fossilized, examining the object I cannot possibly see ho...

BTW, the claim that dinosaurs and humans coexist is accurate. But, it’s only because most vertebrate paleontologists regard modern birds as avian dinosaurs. And, that is what they are. Birds are avian dinosaurs. For my money, one of the coolest scientific realizations of my lifetime. Non avian dinos...

The age of the prints mean people were here during the Last Glacial Maximum. And the find weakens any inherent skepticism of older sites, such as this cave in Mexico: https://bigthink.com/the-past/earliest-americans-visited-cave-30000-years-ago/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/when-did...

Nice recent summation, IMHO...

https://www.scientificamerican.com/arti ... -americas/

West Eurasian strain... http://siberiantimes.com/science/casestudy/news/24000-year-old-boy-from-lake-baikal-is-scientific-sensation/ https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/two-surprises-in-ancient-dna-of-boy-found-buried-in-siberia-541939 Both of these articles date from 2013. That's pretty elderly in the...

West Eurasian strain...

http://siberiantimes.com/science/casest ... sensation/

https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/two-sur ... ria-541939

There were European rivalries no doubt, and there were the indigenous nations, but travelling over the North Atlantic just to freeze seems a wasted effort. And is it not true that some of these colonists were experienced in the religious wars. Yeah, again, I really think you have an exaggerated imp...

The English were well aware of Spain's reaction to the French establishing Ft. Caroline in 1564 and its resulting destruction and execution of all male inhabitants by Menendez. St Augustine was settled by the Spanish in 1565 and was well-garrisoned. English colonists stayed far north at the time; J...

Simon21 wrote: ↑Mon Feb 17, 2020 8:22 am Were there not parts of Alaska that were habitable - Beringeria?

Seems the archaeology is a bit erratic, no Lake Mungo

Sure. Enter the Beringian Standstill:

https://www.hakaimagazine.com/features/ ... continent/

For the record, it's spelled Beringia.....

An analysis of North American human skulls dated variously from 9000-13000 years ago, and the suggested implications for the peopling of the Americas. https://www.livescience.com/skulls-from-first-north-americans-diverse.html The paper: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.po...

No photo showing for me.....

I have not read any of these essays as yet, and I prefer not to be too judgemental, as I am interested in alternative nterpretations of the human past. The most recent journal of the Society for American Archaeology(SAA), has devoted 27 pages to: “Pseudoarchaeology, Scholarship, and Popular Interest...