Tuesday, March 29, 2011

The Earliest Americans Arrived Even Earlyier

The other day I ran across this article and it was saying that all across North America a type of two-faced fluted blade, or what I would just call an arrowhead, has showed up just bellow the surface of the ground dating between 13,100 and 12,800 years ago. These arrowheads called the "Clovis point" have been called the great American invention, because they were thought to be a sort of technology that was spread fast across the people who were living on the Continent at the time. Scientists thought that the inventors of this particular arrowhead arrived from hunters across the ancient land bridge with Siberia. But recently just north of Austin, Texas a new trove of 56 stone tools was found and confirm the makers of this "Clovis point" arrowhead were not the first Americans, and this new site dates back 15,000 years and has reviled different stone tool designs. And I think it's amazing that with all the technology and things we have today that we can keep discovering more and more things about the people who lived a long time before us.

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