Discovery of Ancient Spearpoints in Texas Has Some Archaeologists Questioning history

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George Dvorsky Yesterday 2:37pm



Archaeologists have discovered two previously unknown forms of spearpoint technology at a site in Texas. The triangular blades appear to be older than the projectile points produced by the Paleoamerican Clovis culture, an observation that’s complicating our understanding of how the Americas were colonized—and by whom.

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She died 11,500 years ago at the tender age of six weeks in what is now the interior of Alaska. Dubbed “Sunrise Girl-child” by the local indigenous people, the remains of the Ice Age infant—uncovered at an archaeological dig in 2013—contained traces of DNA, allowing scientists to perform a full genomic analysis.…


And that's it, no further explanations given.......

 

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[GB1]

wow really cool

 

[rock]

Ive found one in that shape here in N GA and have yet to get a proper I.D. on it as to what it is. Thanks for the post very interesting

 

[unclemac]

no! they can't get away with that! That is an explosive statement with a single muddy picture. The article says they were found under a layer of folsom and clovis tools....oh, wait....here is the disclaimer...

But not everyone is convinced by this latest research. The experts we spoke to said it marked an important discovery, but the conclusions reached by the researchers were a bit of a stretch.

 

[Charl]

no! they can't get away with that! That is an explosive statement with a single muddy picture. The article says they were found under a layer of folsom and clovis tools....oh, wait....here is the disclaimer...

But not everyone is convinced by this latest research. The experts we spoke to said it marked an important discovery, but the conclusions reached by the researchers were a bit of a stretch.

Yep, and this:

"The newly reported bifaces from Friedkin are mostly nondescript tips and midsections as well as some broken preforms that are probably Clovis artifacts,” Friedkin told Gizmodo. “The two complete specimens are an elongated triangle and a fishtail-stemmed lanceolate. The triangle is similar to several types that occur sporadically throughout the late Paleoindian and Archaic cultural sequence in Texas, while the fishtail appears to closely resemble the Victoria variant of the Angostura type, which dates between around 8,500 and 10,400 year ago. Many Angostura points were found at the Friedkin site, within an 80-centimeter vertical spread. Are these obvious similarities between claimed pre-Clovis artifacts and later points found in overlying sediments merely coincidental?”

Importantly, Fiedel said the authors failed to mention that the soil at the Friedkin site is classified as a vertisol; the clay-like soil at the site is prone to developing long vertical cracks through which artifacts can move both up and down. These soil processes, he said, can result in the vertical distribution of small artifacts, such as the ones described in the new paper."

 

[arrow86]

Interesting but if you read through there’s several statements that are a stretch and not conclusive But I would love to take part in a project like that.

 

[Tony in SC]

Sometimes even Archys get carried away. At one time it could have been a point on a long shaft,,, or it could have been a knife?