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Title: 18,000(!?!) Year Old Gault Site
Post by: truth_seeker on June 24, 2019, 05:42:28 am
18,000(!?!) Year Old Gault Site

Published on Jul 18, 2018
A video going over the amazing finds at the Gault archeaological site in Texas that produced Clovis and Pre-Clovis artifacts that could go back 20,000 years.  Links below.

As I understand it, among the most significant digs concerning earlyNative American migration/history.

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Title: Re: 18,000(!?!) Year Old Gault Site
Post by: thackney on June 24, 2019, 12:07:17 pm
https://www.gaultschool.org/research/research-gault (https://www.gaultschool.org/research/research-gault)

Some Gault facts
Intact Archaic deposits dating from ~5,000 to 9,000 years ago
Paleoindian deposits from 13,000 to 10,000 years ago
Incised stones that are among the oldest provenienced art in the Americas
More than 600,000 artifacts of Clovis age (13,400-12,700 years ago)
Oldest component in Area 15 of the Gault site is >15,000 years old
Title: Re: 18,000(!?!) Year Old Gault Site
Post by: Sanguine on June 24, 2019, 01:58:21 pm
Very cool!  Particularly if that date holds up.
Title: Re: 18,000(!?!) Year Old Gault Site
Post by: austingirl on June 24, 2019, 04:06:03 pm
Fascinating!
Title: Re: 18,000(!?!) Year Old Gault Site
Post by: rustynail on June 24, 2019, 04:10:38 pm
How long till the Feds bulldoze the site to protect the 'native American' narrative?
Title: Re: 18,000(!?!) Year Old Gault Site
Post by: Sanguine on June 24, 2019, 04:23:44 pm
Quote from: rustynail on June 24, 2019, 04:10:38 pm
How long till the Feds bulldoze the site to protect the 'native American' narrative?

What?
Title: Re: 18,000(!?!) Year Old Gault Site
Post by: rustynail on June 24, 2019, 04:40:13 pm
Quote from: Sanguine on June 24, 2019, 04:23:44 pm
What?
The site where the Kennewick man was found was destroyed so further archeology could not be done.
Title: Re: 18,000(!?!) Year Old Gault Site
Post by: Sanguine on June 24, 2019, 05:22:50 pm
Quote from: rustynail on June 24, 2019, 04:40:13 pm
The site where the Kennewick man was found was destroyed so further archeology could not be done.


Yes,  that was one of thousands.  Most are not destroyed.
Title: Re: 18,000(!?!) Year Old Gault Site
Post by: Elderberry on June 24, 2019, 06:09:20 pm
 Who were the first Americans? Ancient tools dug up in Texas add to the debate

By Matthew Martinez
July 13, 2018 01:10 PM, Updated July 13, 2018 01:10 PM

https://www.star-telegram.com/news/state/texas/article214831930.html (https://www.star-telegram.com/news/state/texas/article214831930.html)

Quote
A new archaeological find suggests that humans inhabited America, specifically parts of what is known today as Texas, as far back as 21,700 years ago.

A group of scientists led by Thomas Williams of Texas State University recently unearthed more than 150,000 human-modified stones at the Gault Archaeological Site in Central Texas, about 40 miles north of Austin.

The group doesn’t claim to have nailed the answer to the question, “Who were the first Americans?” but they might have discovered another runner in that race. The find illustrates “the presence of a previously unknown projectile point technology in North America from before [16,000 years ago],” say their findings, published in the July 11 edition of the journal “Science Advances.”

More at link.

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Title: Re: 18,000(!?!) Year Old Gault Site
Post by: GrouchoTex on June 24, 2019, 06:13:29 pm
Wow, this is a pretty amazing find.
Title: Re: 18,000(!?!) Year Old Gault Site
Post by: truth_seeker on June 24, 2019, 06:53:44 pm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Settlement_of_the_Americas