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Circumspice wrote: "I find it hilarious that they would expect people to believe that an entire, viable breeding population could ever be accidentally transported via tsunami wave, to be deposited on the shores of a distant island, then survive long enough to leave evidence of their presence i...

Clovis didn't need a skeleton and genetics to prove that there was a Clovis culture. Nor do Paleos preceeding Clovis need a skeleton to conclude that Clovis First is dead (talk to Mike Waters et al). One Solutrean skeleton would falsify Clovis first , instantly . Do you know of any ? How about a pr...

You omitted the rest of the sentence " That is true ... and ... you never answered my question. Are you aware of any further Clovis era human remains other than one infant? Clovis Firsters' specious argument is, "Where are the older skeletal remains?" whilst they can only demonstrate...

They not only have artefacts ,they also have human remains and their descendants Speaking in the plural? I am only aware of one Clovis burial recovered, that of an infant: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/02/140212-anzik-skeleton-dna-montana-clovis-culture-first-americans/ Are there more?

I don't have a problem with exploration for the sake of it , or even accidental tourism ... We both agree on that point. but the problem with the method of travel , route and survival has been covered by Oceanographers and archaeologists http://www.bioone.org/doi/10.3721/J080527. Actually, I would ...

I don't see the religious analogy as being a non sequitur , more inappropriate . But if it is to be applied then the Solutrean Hypothesis "crowd" are more deserving . Actually, stating that the Clovis First position is a religion is a form of ad hominem argument and your comment about the...

Min introduced the religious analogy in relation to Clovis first "crowd ".
If it applies to them , then it certainly does to the Solutrean Hypothesis "crowd " .

Was that a non sequitur, or guilt by association?

Most of those with no agenda would see the Solutrean Hypothesis crowd as as having a "religious " approach . Much of it based on faith rather than evidence . I really don't see the Clovis First or the Solutrean Hypothesis as faith at all. Both have their adherents with Clovis Firsters req...

The $300,000 Question: Did the 300k Moroccans know about boats back then? Specifically row boats? How long did it take them to learn how to cross over to Gibralter? also Morocco is close to the Canary Islands, which is near the current that takes you to the Barbados in a row boat. The old H. Sapien...

Maybe evidence of occupation is sealed under the layer of calcite covering the floor.

Hominids are messy, of course there's a bunch of stuff preserved under the calcite. Alright Spice, let's go there with a jackhammer and start investigating!

Up till the time she actually did the dating, it was believed that the structures were no more than about 46,000 years old due to charcoal & bone being radio carbon dated, which is close to the limits for carbon dating. With the half life of carbon-14 being 5,700 years, statistically there was ...

Circumspice's question about whether soil retrieved DNA from open sites can be found as well as from protected (cave) sites is very appropriate to making these site/occupant connections We have Neanderthal DNA and some Denisovan DNA; however, no HE DNA has been identified as of yet. Eventually, it ...

Thanks, Chris. Here is the cross-section:



Apparently, the other tusk is lying near the upright tusk. Makes me wonder what natural forces would bury the pictured tusk vertically.

Digging a profile, they found that the tusk cut through three vertical strata. ergo, when it was buried, it was sticking up vertically like a pole. What could do that in nature? That's why they called it an anomaly. The upright tusk always fascinated me since it seemed almost like it was stuck in t...

Lead author Holen says it is easy to tell the difference between human breaking with large hammerstones, and breakage by heavy construction equipment. Critic Gary Haynes says you cannot distinguish between the two. With regard to hammerstone percussion ripples, Gary Haynes is full of it. Constructi...