[HN Gopher] Research Confirms Eastern Wyoming Paleoindian Site a... ___________________________________________________________________ Research Confirms Eastern Wyoming Paleoindian Site as Americas' Oldest Mine Author : Petiver Score : 18 points Date : 2022-06-03 04:18 UTC (1 days ago) (HTM) web link (www.uwyo.edu) (TXT) w3m dump (www.uwyo.edu) | ncmncm wrote: | It has been quite a few years since serious anthropologists or | archaeologists considered Clovis the first North American | culture. The Texan sites that excavated hundreds of thousands of | pre-Clovis artifacts from strata thousands of years before Clovis | have been well-known for decades. | | It looks like this site fell out of use for a long time | immediately after the Younger Dryas bolide strike of BCE 10,816 | that wiped out the Clovis culture along with 30+ genera of large | mammals, including horses, camels, giant sloths, dire wolves, and | mammoths, and deposited a layer of sharply platinum-enriched dust | and soot. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-06-04 23:00 UTC)