Showing posts with label Clovis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Clovis. Show all posts

Friday, August 10, 2007

13,000 year old spearpoint found near Alexandria, VA

The spearpoint has been identified as being around 13,000 years old, and the previous artifact oldest artifact found in the area was 9,000 years old. The site is Freedmen's Cemetery.

Friday, June 29, 2007

squashing Clovis First

It's well and good to read that squash was being cultivated 10,000 years ago in the Americas, in Peru, no less, but if this is solid research, doesn't this completely destroy Clovis first once and for all?

Hunter-gatherers race across the Bering Strait, pour down through North America and Central America, and then decide to start farming?

Unlikely.

The first wave of people to arrive in the New World came before 11,500 years ago. Thank you, squash, for another nail in the coffin of that theory.