Waiting on Him
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I believe it was called the Neolithic era. I’ve found projectile points in North America that had this technology dating around 12-14k years ago.
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The Genealogical Adam and Eve
- Thread starter Mr E
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Yes, I think I read recently that Clovis points are now dated even earlier than had been thought. I used to be a fairly gung-ho collector of artifacts and found a fair number myself. Gobekli Tepe in Turkey is now pushing back "civilization" thousands of years earlier than had been thought: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/gobekli-tepe-the-worlds-first-temple-83613665/.I believe it was called the Neolithic era. I’ve found projectile points in North America that had this technology dating around 12-14k years ago.
What's bizarre to me is how full-blown civilizations - with language, mathematics, astronomy and all the rest - just sort of "emerged" around the globe within quite a narrow time frame. There are esoteric explanations, from Atlantis to aliens, but in any event it does seem quite weird. Swamidass' theory - "intervention by God" - would also fit.
Ah, it wasn't that Clovis points have been redated but that pre-Clovis points (15,500 years old) have been discovered in Texas: https://www.labmanager.com/oldest-weapons-ever-discovered-in-north-america-pre-date-clovis-3306.
Waiting on Him
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I live in NC about 40 miles from the Uwharrie Mountains. The lithic resource for most of this state and on into Virginia. Hardaway-Dalton are the oldest points here. Most always made out of ryolite. Marrow mountain is an ancient quarry, it’s really something to see.Ah, it wasn't that Clovis points have been redated but that pre-Clovis points (15,500 years old) have been discovered in Texas: https://www.labmanager.com/oldest-weapons-ever-discovered-in-north-america-pre-date-clovis-3306.
Waiting on Him
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Years ago I was into the art of flint napping, there is definitely a technology behind some of these early points. What I’ve seen with lithium record is the later points are much more crude, not nearly as refined. It could just be as they became more farming oriented that their tools didn’t need to be as stealthy.Ah, it wasn't that Clovis points have been redated but that pre-Clovis points (15,500 years old) have been discovered in Texas: https://www.labmanager.com/oldest-weapons-ever-discovered-in-north-america-pre-date-clovis-3306.
Waiting on Him
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It’s more complicated to take a mammoth that a chipmunk.