16,000 Years Ago in Idaho

[CMD]

An important pre-Clovis site identified in Idaho with points from the Western Stemmed Tradition.....

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/c...ericas-oldest/

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/articl...rst-americans/

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOK...J9FDCXv2cepFxQ

http://www.sci-news.com/archaeology/...ols-07546.html

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/08/first-people-americas-came-sea-ancient-tools-unearthed-idaho-river-suggest

"The findings do more than add a few centuries to the timeline of people in the Americas. They also shore up a new picture of how humans first arrived, by showing that people lived at Cooper’s Ferry more than 1 millennium before melting glaciers opened an ice-free corridor through Canada about 14,800 years ago. That implies the first people in the Americas must have come by sea, moving rapidly down the Pacific coast and up rivers. The dates from Cooper’s Ferry “fit really nicely with the [coastal] model that we’re increasingly getting a consensus on from genetics and archaeology,” says Jennifer Raff, a geneticist at the University of Kansas in Lawrence who studies the peopling of the Americas."

[gregszybala]

Cool to see these dates getting pushed further and further back. What we don't know about those who got here first!

[ILLannoyReb]

I've been following this the last couple of days...fascinating!!! I think it was the sciencemag article that said the oldest pieces were tools with no points around, very interesting site there.

[Lindenmeier-Man]

Very interesting , thanks Charlie !

[NJ]

So cool.

Its so interesting that the same locations were used over and over for thousands of years....

[paleo_joe]

Why would the seemingly harder to make Clovis point replace the Western Stemmed?

[Peter Jacobson]

IMO, we'll probably never know with any degree of certainty who was first and when they arrived. It's entirely possible that groups of people migrated here and died out without leaving a trace. Hunter/gatherer bands were small by necessity, life was always a struggle, and any kind of disaster could have rendered them extinct. All we can do is study what evidence we can find and try to piece together a narrative. This is fascinating stuff.

[SDhunter]

Thanks for sharing the links Charlie