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Maybe if you find hominins in North America 130,000 years ago difficult to contemplate, you will have greater difficulty with 200,000 years? Look up "Leakey Ca
by ncmncm 4y ago
Maybe if you find hominins in North America 130,000 years ago difficult to contemplate, you will have greater difficulty with 200,000 years?
Look up "Leakey Calico Early Human site". Yes, that Leakey. National Geographic sponsored work. They dug down dozens of feet, kept finding older worked stone. 1960s.
- googlryas 4y agoI did look it up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calico_Early_Man_Site#Current_consensus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calico_Early_Man_Site#Current_... > The present consensus is that there is no evidence of human activity at the Calico Early Man site. This consensus developed based on a number of factors, including: > The lack of other evidence of human activity (e.g. human or animal remains, or non-tool artifacts). > The deep antiquity of the site (the next oldest date for human artifacts in the Americas is 30,000 BP, and that date itself is controversial). > The sheer number of possible tools, up to 60,000 by one account.[6] > The research by Duvall/Venner, Payen, and others providing possible natural explanations for the stone objects.
- ncmncm 4y agoIn other words, there was so much evidence, none of it counted. They did not, at the time, know about the Cerutti Mastodon. You can see vids on YT of visits to the site. There were so many tools found, there are piles of them left out on the ground. Very, very obviously knapped tools.