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Kimmswick Bone Bed, Jefferson County Missouri
< home # store # services # articles # game # app #contact > Neolithic Site 32km SW of St. Louis. In upper Mississippi valley, 2.5km west of Mississippi River, at confluence of 4 North American drainage basins (upper Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio, and Tennessee rivers). Where 30% of American contiguous land mass is drained.Mastodon remains…
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Bonfire Shelter & Eagle Caves
< home # store # services # articles # game # app #contact > Bibliography: Fagan, Brian. Ancient North America. Thames & Hudson, London. 2005, p 125. TSHA | Bonfire Shelter. (n.d.). https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/bonfire-shelter Adovasio, J. M., & Pedler, D. (2016). Strangers in a New Land: What Archaeology Reveals about the First Americans. Firefly Books. Day…
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Kennewick man skeleton and Beringia theory
< home # store # services # articles # game # app #contact > In 1996, two college students in Kennewick, Washington, stumbled on 9400 year old human bones, eroding out of the banks of the Columbia river. Denmark scientists were able to extract DNA from the skeleton. They found it was more common to…
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Neolithic (archaic) architecture site(s): Shoop, East Pennsylvania
< home # store # services # articles # game # app #contact > Shoop, Dauphin County, East Pennsylvania, 25km NE Harrisburg, 150km NW Philadelphia. George Gordon discovered 1930s, looted and collected since.6500 know, 3500 documented lithic artifacts and flakes. Including stone tools, flakes, projectile points. Over 80 years!A suspected 98% of sites paleoindian artifacts…
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Almost 100 years ago, near the Dent railroad depot, workers found mammoth bones & clovis spears. The site was once located next to the South Platte River. Southeast of Milliken, Colorado
< home # store # services # articles # game # app #contact > The Dent clovis site, located near the town of Dent, Colorado. Is an important archaeological site, that provides insights into the early human occupation of north America. Railroad tracks serving the depot, ran over eroded ice age terrace remnantsIn 1932, after…
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The Monte Verde II site has been considered key evidence showing that humans settled in the Americas before Clovis culture. By at least 1,000 years
< home # store # services # articles # game # app #contact > A significant paleolithic archaeological site located in southern Chile, about 30 miles (48 kilometers) inland from the Pacific coast. Known as one of the oldest known human habitation sites in the Americas. It is called Monte Verde. The site was discovered…
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In 2008, the Mahaffy cache was discovered by Patrick Mahaffy, a Boulder resident. He was landscaping his backyard. During the process, he unearthed a set of ancient tools
< home # store # services # articles # game # app #contact > The Mahaffy Clovis Cache refers to a significant archaeological discovery made in Boulder, Colorado. This cache consists of Clovis artifacts associated with the Clovis culture. Known for its presence in North America around 13,000 years ago. 83 stone tools from a…
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The Schaefer & Hebior sites in Wisconsin are two significant archaeological sites near Kenosha, Wisconsin. They have yielded evidence of human activity dating back to the pre-Clovis period. Roughly 14-15,000 years ago
< home # store # services # articles # game # app #contact > These sites help with the pre-clovis transition of human settlement in north AmericaTypically dated to around 13,000 years ago. Animal remains were inundated by waters of a long-dried-up lake, shortly after it was butchered. Making bones well preserved. Fragments of two…
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Tibitó, Columbia; and, Taima Taima, Venezuala are controversial pre-Clovis archaeological sites
< home # store # services # articles # game # app #contact > In the western hemisphere, Tibitó in Colombia and Taima Taima in Venezuela are two archaeological sites in South America. They have sparked debate about the timing and nature of early humans. Both are believed to contain evidence of human activity dating…
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The Topper archaeological site is a controversal pre-Clovis site located near the Savannah River in Allendale County, south Carolina
< home # store # services # articles # game # app #contact > It has gained attention for potentially challenging the long-standing Clovis-first model. The site is someone hilly. And, popular, because it has a chert quarry. The site has proved notable because artifacts found at lower levels suggest human presence dating as far…