They Finally Found It !

[uniface]

It being a Clovis site with abundant, well-preserved organic remains. Check this out :

The damp, swampy area provided a migration route for herds of animals.
A natural geographical barrier of ponds and wetlands ran east-west for 90 miles, from within the present Ontario peninsula to where Rochester sits today. A two-mile-wide corridor that penetrated the barrier became a natural migratory route that appears to have attracted animals and the Clovis people that followed them.

Human habitation was also documented from the Ice Age. Laub said these people were called the Clovis, a pre-historic Paleo-Indian culture who left their mark at Hiscock in the form of tools: 47 fluted points of gutting knives, some made from stone and others from the bones of dead animals.

Laub also said that scientific evidence regarding these animals has determined that 100 percent of the late Ice Age mastodons were infected with tuberculosis, a finding that had never before been detected through fossil evidence. He mentioned this disease was a pandemic effect of the extreme weather conditions but wasn't responsible for their extinction.

http://www.fredonialeader.com/news/the- ... -1.1781110

[kbs2244]

What are the effects of eating the poorly cooked meat from an animal that has tuberculosis?

[Rokcet Scientist]

What are the effects of eating the poorly cooked meat from an animal that has tuberculosis?

If it WAS cooked!

[Digit]

TB can be transmitted via contact with infected animals. I'd like to know how they arrive at the 100% figure though.

Roy.

[Rokcet Scientist]

TB can be transmitted via contact with infected animals.

Yes, I seem to recall TB disperses via aerosols like exhalations and sneezes and such.

I'd like to know how they arrive at the 100% figure though.

Quite.
I don't think they had a "count all the mastodonts you see in your garden in one hour" census...

[kbs2244]

That is why I brought the idea up.

I always heard of TB being spread through coughing and sneezing.
Inhalation.

But if your weapons were Clovis how close to the beast would you have to get?
Close enough to breathe the same air?

Or could you catch TB just from eating the meat.

And, of course, could this be a reason for the disappearance of the Clovis culture?

[Digit]

The government agency in the UK is DEFRA, they state that the risk from meat is 'small!'
Thus it exists, properly cooked it is safe.
All 'reactors' to TB tests are removed from the food chain.

Roy.

[Minimalist]

One thing that troubles me about this report is the timing. Niagara Falls only goes back to about 10,000 BC and Niagara Falls is actually south west of Rochester. The glacial retreat was interrupted by the Younger Dryas. Again, I have to wonder what humans would be doing at the base of a melting glacier? Surely, the animals they hunted would have been looking for better foraging conditions.

Something does not seem kosher.

[Rokcet Scientist]

At the base of a glacier there is fresh, uncontaminated water in abundance. Ideal for man and beast.

if your weapons were Clovis how close to the beast would you have to get?
Close enough to breathe the same air?

Certainly. Ever seen an elephant exhale its last almighty breath when it's lying on the ground? If you're in the "line of fire" of its trunk I wouldn't be surprised if you could be contaminated up to 20/30 feet away.

[Minimalist]

Same is true of the rivers and streams 100 miles away. You know. Where their boats are!

[Rokcet Scientist]

Same is true of the rivers and streams 100 miles away. You know. Where their boats are!

Their boats were frozen solid in Lake Erie's pack ice, weren't they?