Tuesday, January 21, 2025

Early Man in the Americas

Maybe every other American movie shouldn't be based on a comic book. Other countries will think Americans live in an infantile fantasy land where reality is whatever we say it is and every problem can be solved with violence. -Bill Maher, comedian, actor, and writer

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A bird dog that can't point birds will point flies. So Biden restlessly searches for significant acts. 
Biden has pardoned Leonard Peltier who was convicted of murdering two FBI agents.
"This last-second, disgraceful act by then-President Biden, which does not change Peltier's guilt but does release him from prison, is cowardly and lacks accountability," Natalie Bara, president of the FBI Agents Association, said in a statement Monday. "It is a cruel betrayal to the families and colleagues of these fallen Agents and is a slap in the face of law enforcement."

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Underwood underscored it: there were serious women at the Trump thing.

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Early Man in the Americas

Clovis is a site in New Mexico, where archaeologists in the 1920s and 1930s found distinctive projectile points and other artifacts between 11,000 and 13,000 years ago.

This date coincides with the end of the last Ice Age, a time when an ice-free corridor likely emerged in North America — giving rise to the theory of how early humans moved into the continent after crossing the Bering land bridge from Asia.

And because the fossil record shows the widespread decline of American megafauna starting around the same time — with North America losing 70% of its large mammals, and South America losing more than 80% — many researchers surmised that humans' arrival led to mass extinctions.

J'accuse.

But evidence from older sites keeps coming to light.

The first site, widely accepted as older than Clovis, was in Monte Verde, Chile.

Buried beneath a peat bog,14,500-year-old stone tools, pieces of preserved animal hides, and various edible and medicinal plants were discovered.

Among the oldest sites is Arroyo del Vizcaíno in Uruguay, where researchers are studying apparent human-made “cut marks” on animal bones dated to around 30,000 years ago.

At New Mexico’s White Sands, researchers have uncovered human footprints dating between 21,000 and 23,000 years ago, but no evidence of tools.

So man came to North America earlier than the Great Extinction, too early to be blamed for it. However, the superficial information fits the superficial narrative, the preconception of man as a destructive force in nature. So they keep it. 

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