Earlier this year a paper by Eric Boëda ( Boëda E, Ramos M, Perez A, Hatté C, Lahaye C, Pino M, et al. (2021) 24.0 kyr cal BP stone artefact from Vale da Pedra Furada, Piauí, Brazil: Techno-functional analysis. PLoS ONE 16(3): e0247965. rRephttps://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0247965) analyzed stone tools dated 24,000 years old, from Brazil. The interesting part is (see my previous post) that the authors acknowledge the conflict between orthodox scholars and those that support an early peopling of America.
They wrote: "The peopling of the Americas continues to be subject of intense debate, basically between two positions that often do not consider fully South American research: a Last Glacial Maximum (LGM sensu stricto, dated between 19–23 kyr BP) occupation (current consensus) and a pre-LGM occupation. In support of the latter, a growing body of evidence demonstrates a Late Pleistocene human presence (i.e. Paleoamerican) in South America well beyond 20 cal kyr BP"
The article then goes on to describe stone tools and one in particular (24 kya). What I found interesting is the authors' comment that the older layers have cobble type quarz tools (they look Oldowan to my layman eyes. See Fig. 5), and as you reach younger levels, the tools morph into bifacial tools (Fig. 7). Both are shown below:
Anyway, these findings show two things. One, evidence is mounting and it supports an earlier peopling of America and, two, that North American scientists wouldn't even see an ancient stone industry tool because they don't think there are any in the Americas. They will ignore it or consider it a geofact.
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Some thought about this argument:
ReplyDelete1- I wonder how the hell there are still some who think that Clovis were the first men in America. Even Monte Verde was just ignored for about 20 years until chilean scientists led US peers to the site in 1997. Evidently, the old careers are built about some 'facts' that cannot be discussed. If those tools are confirmed as old as declared, then there is no doubt about it.
2-I read even about a strang dr. Baz who claimed that Cerutti mastodon site was created by a sort of giant monkey, because men are always survived since they came to any land, and because giant/big turtles are invariably killed by men, and in N.America there were some until about 10,000 yrs ago. So men cannot be here. The simple fact that N.America is not a small island, or the giant capucin monkey is not known to use mastodon bones, is evidently ignored.
3-I'd add, also the 'blitzkrieg theory' (P.Martin) about megafauna extermination is fatally flawed by pre-Clovis peopling of America.
And i really don't have an answer about the massive megafauna extinction in the New World, but not so in the Old one. The further theory that animals were more adapted to men in Africa rather than America is laughlable as well: why mammouth died out pratically on the whole planet in the same time, when mammouth were hunted in Europe since x00,000 years ago, and Siberia atleast 40,000 yrs, while in America, apparently, just by 13,000? Something else was decisive. And lastly, why the hell in America or Siberia mammouth and rhinos, and horses etc would be hunted to extinction by some mere thousands of men, while in India elephants, rhinos,buffalos etc etc survived beside millions humans and many of those species still are there, with 1,000,000,000+ humans? It's senseless to say the least. Many things more should be said about this madness, that pretends to treat mammuths and horses like silly dodos.