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That dig in Ohio last month proved the textbooks wrong about Clovis people
I was at a talk in Cincinnati where a guy from the University of Michigan showed carbon dating from a site near Columbus. They found stone tools 3 feet below a Clovis layer, pushing habitation back to 14,500 years ago minimum. Why are so many archaeologists still clinging to the old timeline? Has anyone else seen evidence that challenges what we were taught in school?
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miab8723d ago
I was at that exact Cincinnati talk. The Michigan guy showed a chart with thirty radiocarbon samples from that site, all clustered between 14,200 and 14,800 years old. The only way to keep the old timeline is to argue the samples were contaminated by groundwater, but the lab did pretreatment for that. Ask any archaeologist who digs in the Ohio River valley if they've found anything deeper than the Clovis layer.
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cameronb5223d ago
Did that Michigan guy mention how deep the artifacts were compared to the Clovis stuff?
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