The Hartley Site

[Charl]

This may be of particular interest to uniface, who enjoys thinking outside the box. It is extremely interesting, pretty damn exiting actually. It brings together a lot of sites, dates, and the origins of the mysterious Population Y, seen in South American groups. Something to think about here…..

“In summary, taphonomic and genomic evidence accord in detecting at least two founding populations for the Americas, and in viewing the story of Native Americans expanding into virgin country as “profoundly misleading” (Reich, 2018). The position of the Hartley site deep in the North American Western Interior suggests that the first human arrival in North America, whether overland or via a coastal route, occurred well before ∼37,000 years ago. The Hartley site shares much in common with Old World proboscidean butchering sites; it appears that while hunting technologies evolved steadily, butchering practices preserved more stable procedural efficiencies. The Hartley locality exemplifies new methods and nuanced criteria for diagnosing early human occupation sites in the archeological record. It raises provocative new questions about when, where, and how the Native American clade, with its unprecedented technology, intersected with earlier human occupants of the Americas. It also provides a new deep point of chronologic reference for occupation of the Americas, for attainment by humans of a global distribution, and a temporal recalibration of human ecological impacts across the Western Hemisphere.”

Frontiers | Human Occupation of the North American Colorado Plateau ∼37,000 Years Ago

Calibrating human population dispersals across Earth’s surface is fundamental to assessing rates and timing of anthropogenic impacts and distinguishing ecolo...

www.frontiersin.org

 

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[joshuaream]

This may be of particular interest to uniface, who enjoys thinking outside the box. It is extremely interesting, pretty damn exiting actually. It brings together a lot of sites, dates, and the origins of the mysterious Population Y, seen in South American groups. Something to think about here…..

“In summary, taphonomic and genomic evidence accord in detecting at least two founding populations for the Americas, and in viewing the story of Native Americans expanding into virgin country as “profoundly misleading” (Reich, 2018). The position of the Hartley site deep in the North American Western Interior suggests that the first human arrival in North America, whether overland or via a coastal route, occurred well before ∼37,000 years ago. The Hartley site shares much in common with Old World proboscidean butchering sites; it appears that while hunting technologies evolved steadily, butchering practices preserved more stable procedural efficiencies. The Hartley locality exemplifies new methods and nuanced criteria for diagnosing early human occupation sites in the archeological record. It raises provocative new questions about when, where, and how the Native American clade, with its unprecedented technology, intersected with earlier human occupants of the Americas. It also provides a new deep point of chronologic reference for occupation of the Americas, for attainment by humans of a global distribution, and a temporal recalibration of human ecological impacts across the Western Hemisphere.”

Frontiers | Human Occupation of the North American Colorado Plateau ∼37,000 Years Ago

Calibrating human population dispersals across Earth’s surface is fundamental to assessing rates and timing of anthropogenic impacts and distinguishing ecolo...

www.frontiersin.org

The article is a great read. A couple of really "sciency" paragraphs focused on the chemistry, but most of it is very readable.

 

[Older The Better]

I was kind of skeptical of the extreme dates for a while but I was fairly well sold on the white sands foot prints, after that I’ve been more open to early sites. interesting article, gives you plenty to think about.

 

[Charl]

I was kind of skeptical of the extreme dates for a while but I was fairly well sold on the white sands foot prints, after that I’ve been more open to early sites. interesting article, gives you plenty to think about.

Same here, although I’ve always thought we’d find entry was far earlier than we thought. Imagine, in the earliest 1900’s, the consensus considered about 2000 years ago as the approximate time of entry. The White Sands footprints can only be human, no need to debate geofact vs. artifact, or any site contamination. If the dates are right, the footprints are a smoking gun for arrival during or before LGM. Had not heard of the even older human tracks in Argentina.

 

[newnan man]

Interesting article which only reinforces my belief that humans occupied NA much earlier than we are "led" to believe. I never understood why the use of boats never got much traction by archeologists. Look at the Atlantic, Pacific, Gulf, and various bays, rivers and large inlets. Thousands of entry points. Channel Islands with untold ancient sites. It is accepted that Australia, New Guinea, New Zealand were all populated by people using boats over 50,000 years ago but we still beat the Bering Land Bridge theory horse to death.

 

[uniface]

You da Man, Charl !!! Great stuff !!