Science accepts as a general standard humans migrated into North America over the Bering Land Bridge maybe thirty thousand years. You can give or take ten thousand years on that estimate and it won't affect the revelation in the latest science in which they claim there are markings on the bones of Mastodons which they believe could only have been made by humans ... over one hundred thousand years earlier. (Science Daily: Mastodon discovery shakes up understanding of early humans in the New World)
There's little about the migration into North America which this theory does not set on its ear since now no-one will really care when the Vikings got here and no-one cared about when Columbus got here anymore anyway.
A concentration of fossil bone and rock. The unusual positions of the femur heads, one up and one down, broken in the same manner next to each other is unusual. Mastodon molars are located in the lower right hand corner next to a large rock comprised of andesite which is in contact with a broken vertebra. Upper left is a rib angled upwards resting on a granitic pegmatite rock fragment.
Credit: Image courtesy of San Diego Natural History Museum
An Ice Age paleontological-turned-archaeological site in San Diego, Calif., preserves 130,000-year-old bones and teeth of a mastodon that show evidence of modification by early humans. Analysis of these finds dramatically revises the timeline for when humans first reached North America, according to a paper to be published in the April 27 issue of the journal Nature.
The fossil remains were discovered by Museum paleontologists during routine paleontological mitigation work at a freeway expansion project site managed by the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans). The bones, tusks, and molars, many of which are sharply broken, were found deeply buried alongside large stones that appeared to have been used as hammers and anvils, making this the oldest in situ, well-documented archaeological site in the Americas.
- SD
If you're not getting a WTF Alert in yer noggin, this would be about time to get cracking on one since this seriously jacks existing science on the matter. If you want to science then question everything.
Ed: I see a some circumstantial evidence and some stretching so far.
Roger that. Let's see what else they have.
"When we first discovered the site, there was strong physical evidence that placed humans alongside extinct Ice Age megafauna. This was significant in and of itself and a 'first' in San Diego County," said Dr. Tom Deméré, curator of paleontology and director of PaleoServices at the San Diego Natural History Museum and corresponding author on the paper. "Since the original discovery, dating technology has advanced to enable us to confirm with further certainty that early humans were here significantly earlier than commonly accepted."
- SD
There's really no content in the paragraph except it contains the phrase 'in and of itself' and that one never comes up for conveying information but it comes up constantly for the utterance of more words.
Now we will get a bit more beefy with it.
Since its initial discovery in late 1992, this site has been the subject of research by top scientists to date the fossils accurately and evaluate microscopic damage on bones and rocks that authors now consider indicative of human activity. In 2014, Dr. James Paces, a research geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey, used state-of-the-art radiometric dating methods to determine that the mastodon bones -- which were still fresh when they were broken by strategically-placed blows from hammerstones -- were 130,000 years old, with a conservative error of plus or minus 9,400 years. "The distributions of natural uranium and its decay products both within and among these bone specimens show remarkably reliable behavior, allowing us to derive an age that is well within the wheelhouse of the dating system," explained Paces, a co-author of the paper.
- SD
Validating the 'strategic breaking' is the key point to this since looks like it could be true is not a proof.
So far, it could have been this was where Noah got the word from God, "Lose the Mastodons, buddy. I'm going to make them go extinct anyway because, well, I just don't like them. Go ahead and eat them if you like. There's a lot of beef on those heffalumps."
"There's no doubt in my mind this is an archaeological site," said Dr. Steve Holen, director of research at the Center for American Paleolithic Research, former curator of archaeology at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, and the lead author of the paper. "The bones and several teeth show clear signs of having been deliberately broken by humans with manual dexterity and experiential knowledge. This breakage pattern has also been observed at mammoth fossil sites in Kansas and Nebraska, where alternative explanations such as geological forces or gnawing by carnivores have been ruled out."
- SD
What I'm hearing so far is the researchers have zero human bones to corroborate this.
There's not much more to the article except review of existing theory but the interested student is invited ...
To get to the bottom of this one, the interested student will need to do a whole lot of, erm, digging since the case is not even close to proven.
Here's some more at RT: ‘Extraordinary evidence’ shows humans in North America 100,000 years earlier than first thought
There's little about the migration into North America which this theory does not set on its ear since now no-one will really care when the Vikings got here and no-one cared about when Columbus got here anymore anyway.
A concentration of fossil bone and rock. The unusual positions of the femur heads, one up and one down, broken in the same manner next to each other is unusual. Mastodon molars are located in the lower right hand corner next to a large rock comprised of andesite which is in contact with a broken vertebra. Upper left is a rib angled upwards resting on a granitic pegmatite rock fragment.
Credit: Image courtesy of San Diego Natural History Museum
An Ice Age paleontological-turned-archaeological site in San Diego, Calif., preserves 130,000-year-old bones and teeth of a mastodon that show evidence of modification by early humans. Analysis of these finds dramatically revises the timeline for when humans first reached North America, according to a paper to be published in the April 27 issue of the journal Nature.
The fossil remains were discovered by Museum paleontologists during routine paleontological mitigation work at a freeway expansion project site managed by the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans). The bones, tusks, and molars, many of which are sharply broken, were found deeply buried alongside large stones that appeared to have been used as hammers and anvils, making this the oldest in situ, well-documented archaeological site in the Americas.
- SD
If you're not getting a WTF Alert in yer noggin, this would be about time to get cracking on one since this seriously jacks existing science on the matter. If you want to science then question everything.
Ed: I see a some circumstantial evidence and some stretching so far.
Roger that. Let's see what else they have.
"When we first discovered the site, there was strong physical evidence that placed humans alongside extinct Ice Age megafauna. This was significant in and of itself and a 'first' in San Diego County," said Dr. Tom Deméré, curator of paleontology and director of PaleoServices at the San Diego Natural History Museum and corresponding author on the paper. "Since the original discovery, dating technology has advanced to enable us to confirm with further certainty that early humans were here significantly earlier than commonly accepted."
- SD
There's really no content in the paragraph except it contains the phrase 'in and of itself' and that one never comes up for conveying information but it comes up constantly for the utterance of more words.
Now we will get a bit more beefy with it.
Since its initial discovery in late 1992, this site has been the subject of research by top scientists to date the fossils accurately and evaluate microscopic damage on bones and rocks that authors now consider indicative of human activity. In 2014, Dr. James Paces, a research geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey, used state-of-the-art radiometric dating methods to determine that the mastodon bones -- which were still fresh when they were broken by strategically-placed blows from hammerstones -- were 130,000 years old, with a conservative error of plus or minus 9,400 years. "The distributions of natural uranium and its decay products both within and among these bone specimens show remarkably reliable behavior, allowing us to derive an age that is well within the wheelhouse of the dating system," explained Paces, a co-author of the paper.
- SD
Validating the 'strategic breaking' is the key point to this since looks like it could be true is not a proof.
So far, it could have been this was where Noah got the word from God, "Lose the Mastodons, buddy. I'm going to make them go extinct anyway because, well, I just don't like them. Go ahead and eat them if you like. There's a lot of beef on those heffalumps."
"There's no doubt in my mind this is an archaeological site," said Dr. Steve Holen, director of research at the Center for American Paleolithic Research, former curator of archaeology at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, and the lead author of the paper. "The bones and several teeth show clear signs of having been deliberately broken by humans with manual dexterity and experiential knowledge. This breakage pattern has also been observed at mammoth fossil sites in Kansas and Nebraska, where alternative explanations such as geological forces or gnawing by carnivores have been ruled out."
- SD
What I'm hearing so far is the researchers have zero human bones to corroborate this.
There's not much more to the article except review of existing theory but the interested student is invited ...
To get to the bottom of this one, the interested student will need to do a whole lot of, erm, digging since the case is not even close to proven.
Here's some more at RT: ‘Extraordinary evidence’ shows humans in North America 100,000 years earlier than first thought
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