jlf1961
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ORIGINAL: ShaharThorne The Clovis points were discover in 1932 around Clovis NM by a road crew who then contacted the University of Pennsylvania and Edgar B Howard went out to investigate and discover the 'remains' of the possibly first American civilization. That existed for about 300 to 400 years but the tools were used in a span of 13,500 years, give or take a few years (if its a good thing, keep it going). There has been points discovered in various parts of the Americas, some going as far south as Venezuela. There is some debate whether or not the Clovis people did hunt the mega-animals like the mammoth and rhino because of the 'sticks and stones' theory (most museum displays has the hunters hurling spears at mammoths with the wife and kids standing by) while some people are saying that the early Americans were salvaging, taking advantage of the watering holes and picking off the weak and infirm animals. You realize I had to dig through my old Smithsonian magazine collection (yes, I collect those from the library sales and some NeoGeo as well) because I remembered this article. What I don't learn in college, I get from being self taught in various methods. Meanwhile, I am trying to figure out the security system for my MMORPG...its trying to change on me and its not allowing me to fix it. You did not answer the primary question: IF the first Americans arrived from Asia via the land bridge between Alaska and Siberia, then why are their Clovis points that have no connection in design or even manufacture with spear and lance points from Siberia, Mongolia etc, but do have a strong resemblance to spear and lance points found in Europe? Secondly, the spear points dated after the decline of the Clovis culture, about 1500 years between the two, do resemble spear and lance points found in Siberia and Mongolia, indicating a technological link between the two. The latest studies have pushed humans on the North American continent back to around 24000BCE. However, there are some sites that indicate an earlier arrival of humans prior to this in parts of lower North America and into South America, but there is a rub to this.... The land route from the Barents Land bridge in to the inner North American continent and further south was blocked by a 3 mile high sheet of ice. That is if you stick to the idea that the first humans arrived from Asia. Also, if you stick to the Asia migration theory for the first humans, it also means that once the got here, they threw away all their familiar technology and got on the stone age internet to download spear point designs that were indigenous to Europe.....
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