[HN Gopher] Research Confirms Eastern Wyoming Paleoindian Site a...
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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.
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| 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.
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