RE: Ancient man in America?
June 20, 2020 at 12:57 pm
(This post was last modified: June 20, 2020 at 12:58 pm by BrianSoddingBoru4.)
I recall when this was first discovered, and it’s come under pretty heavy criticism for several reasons:
1. The ‘tools’ found at the site aren’t unequivocally tools, that is they don’t appear to have been deliberately shaped.
2. There is none of the debris typically associated with tool-making at or near the site.
3. There are no human remains (of comparable age) at or near the site.
4. There is no evidence of any events between the death of the mastodon and its burial (no scavenging, for example), suggesting that the animal may have been buried in a land- or mudslide, which would also account for the bones being freshly broken.
That being said, this may yet turn out to be true. Paleontologists are notoriously attached to their own theories, so the critics maybe the critics are just unwilling to accept this one.
Time will tell.
Boru
1. The ‘tools’ found at the site aren’t unequivocally tools, that is they don’t appear to have been deliberately shaped.
2. There is none of the debris typically associated with tool-making at or near the site.
3. There are no human remains (of comparable age) at or near the site.
4. There is no evidence of any events between the death of the mastodon and its burial (no scavenging, for example), suggesting that the animal may have been buried in a land- or mudslide, which would also account for the bones being freshly broken.
That being said, this may yet turn out to be true. Paleontologists are notoriously attached to their own theories, so the critics maybe the critics are just unwilling to accept this one.
Time will tell.
Boru
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