Shoddy Journalism

[Minimalist]

This annoys me.

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and...cave_.html

It's about human coprolites found in a cave in Oregon and it contains this line.

Stone points discovered in the same cave differ from those used by the Clovis people, once thought to be the first North Americas. The findings suggest that a second group of people lived in the western United States at the same time, or possibly before, the Clovis culture.




They've got a bombshell here and rather than tell us anything about the points, ....they just want to talk about fossilized shit.


Frustrating.

[Colanth]

Since Clovis is ca. 11.5kya, and these coprolites are ca. 14kya, of course they're older. But the article is about the coprolites, not about the older invasion, which may have been Ainu or northern European. The Older Dryas stadial (ca. 13.8kya) or Younger Dryas stadial (ca. 12.8kya) probably killed them off (along with a lot of flora and fauna), wherever they came from.

But one article can't cover all that ground. If the article got your interest, start searching the web for articles about the earlier western hemisphere invasion.

[Minimalist]

Would you rather see a photo of a stone spear point or a turd?

[downbeatplumb]

Would you rather see a photo of a stone spear point or a turd?

Has any culture ever made spear points out of coprolite?