Pre Clovis artifacts

[newnan man]

These are pre Clovis artifacts found at the Debra L. Friedman site in Texas. Nearly 20,000 years old.

 

[ToddsPoint]

More or less generic looking lanceolates. If you found one randomly you’d never guess it could be that old. The glacier was still in US territory 20,000 yrs ago. I don’t know what the climate was like in TX back then but I’d think it was cooler than it is now. Maybe very pleasant??

 

[CreekSide]

Looks like Copenas to me

 

[Lone Star]

These are pre Clovis artifacts found at the Debra L. Friedman site in Texas. Nearly 20,000 years old. View attachment 2201011View attachment 2201010

Wow, If they can only talk.
Great post

 

[muki]

More or less generic looking lanceolates. If you found one randomly you’d never guess it could be that old. The glacier was still in US territory 20,000 yrs ago. I don’t know what the climate was like in TX back then but I’d think it was cooler than it is now. Maybe very pleasant??

More or less generic looking lanceolates. If you found one randomly you’d never guess it could be that old. The glacier was still in US territory 20,000 yrs ago. I don’t know what the climate was like in TX back then but I’d think it was cooler than it is now. Maybe very pleasant??

Recent discoveries indicate that Paleo people traversed the Atlantic, also engaging in island hopping. They did not solely migrate through the Bering Strait. This has resulted in the Atlantic coast being scattered with Paleo artifacts. So, which group actually arrived here first?

 

[newnan man]

Sea levels were much lower back then than they are today. All the early coastal sites from migrations are now submerged.

 

[Lone Star]

These are pre Clovis artifacts found at the Debra L. Friedman site in Texas. Nearly 20,000 years old.

They all have similarities to younger types like Thrall, Hell Gap, Angostura, and Milnesand as well. Very cool for sure. I guess the basic design of sturdy and strong forms, easily resharpened, has played Peek-a-boo with science further back than we all thought. I haven't seen any of the complete "fish tail" types that were found in the pre Clovis layers.
When I toured the Gault site I never got a look at some of their pre clovis forms, but I bet there is a similarity considering they were within spitting distance of each other.

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[muki]

Sea levels were much lower back then than they are today. All the early coastal sites from migrations are

Sea levels were much lower back then than they are today. All the early coastal sites from migrations

Sea levels were much lower back then than they are today. All the early coastal sites from migrations are now submerged.

Not every part of the Appalachian Ridgeway has been submerged on the Atlantic side; however, prehistoric mammals have been located in the coastal waters. If the entire region had been covered, we would not be finding paleo-Indian artifacts today or even several hundred years ago. In the early 1950s, there were claims that paleo-Indians never reached Florida, a theory that has been disproven for the last seventy-five years.

 

[muki]

Recent discoveries indicate that Paleo people traversed the Atlantic, also engaging in island hopping. They did not solely migrate through the Bering Strait. This has resulted in the Atlantic coast being scattered with Paleo artifacts. So, which group actually arrived here first?

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