Archaeologica.org

This website is the course outline with syllabus for an American Archeology course at Indiana.

http://www.indiana.edu/~arch/saa/matrix ... mod04.html

I notice a lot of things we have discussed here and found several others that may be worth investigating.

In particular note:

B. Cultural staging area in Asia:
1. What could have been the people like who originally might have come over?
a. Such a question involves consideration of when we hypothesize the first people came.
b. Northeast Asia can be perceived as a sort of "cultural filter" that "tests" potential migrants:
c. Through much of Pleistocene times northeast Asia was COLD.
d. Thus, merely to make it to such a gateway to the New World would have required cultural adaptations to cold climates.
2. The earliest human colonizers of cold areas were Homo erectus.
a. Thus, conceivably Homo erectus living in China at least some 300,000 years ago could have made it to the gateway. b. If they made it, what kinds of evidence would we expect?
(1) Physical evidence in the form of fragments of their bones.
(2) Technological evidence in the form of their tools, such as chopper bifaces.

Minimalist wrote:A kindred spirit? Maybe send the prof a couple of pictures of some of your best stuff and tell him to "keep up the good work."

Who knows? You may get an answer.

Cognito wrote:Charlie, let's do a two-step on him!

This course will document the cultural trajectories of North American Indian cultures emphasizing times prior to European colonization. We will examine the 20,000-plus-year archaeological record for evidence of the original migrations to the New World.

Digit wrote:Riiiight! So HE makes it to the Eastern most limits of Asia, or indeed to the Americas. Seems reasonable.
Noow! Am I now supposed to believe that having left colonies all the way from Africa to the Americas he finally died out to the very last individual?
Seems highly unreasonable to me.
What does the club say on that I wonder?

OTOH . . . if they can isolate T.Rex' DNA . .

Thanks Charlie! Thinking outside of the box indeed is something I try to instill in my students - in all kinds of subjects. Your attached site was very interesting and I would be glad to hear more if it comes along.

Thanks!

Skip Messenger
Department of Anthropology
Hamline University

>>> "Charlie Hatchett" <charliehatchett@sbcglobal.net> 5/3/2007 11:30 AM >>>
Hi Lewis.

I was reading over a portion of your American Archeology course outline, and
was pleasantly surprised to see being taught, at least, the plausibility of
H. erectus being in N.A.


"...

B. Cultural staging area in Asia:
1. What could have been the people like who originally might have come over?

A. Such a question involves consideration of when we hypothesize the first
people came.
B. Northeast Asia can be perceived as a sort of "cultural filter" that
tests" potential migrants:
C. Through much of Pleistocene times northeast Asia was COLD.
D. Thus, merely to make it to such a gateway to the New World would have
required cultural adaptations to cold climates.
2. The earliest human colonizers of cold areas were Homo Erectus.
A. Thus, conceivably Homo Erectus living in China at least some 300,000
years ago could have made it to the gateway. B. If they made it, what kinds
of evidence would we expect?
(1) Physical evidence in the form of fragments of their bones.
(2) Technological evidence in the form of their tools, such as chopper
bifaces.

..."


I thought you might find interest in the following artifacts being recovered
from Pleistocene terraces along a creek in central Texas:

http://cayman.globat.com/~bandstexas.co ... s%203.html


The USGS performed some initial U-Series dating on secondary carbonate
deposited in the flake channels of one of the bifaces and came up with a
very tentative date of ca. 147,500 B.P. At that point Warren Sharp, with
Berkeley Geochronology Center, was enlisted to help out. He is in the
process of analyzing 6 more specimens.

Once again, good work. It's good to see the students being taught to think
outside the box, unconstrained by previous theories.

Cheers,

Charlie Hatchett
www.preclovis.com
charliehatchett@sbcglobal.net

Minimalist wrote:I'm not surprised....the movement is still eagerly accepting converts!