An incredible artifact, a piece of bone with an image of a mammoth carved in it, has been found in Vero Beach. It may be as old as 14,000 years. “No similar carved figure has ever been authenticated in the United States, or anywhere in this hemisphere. (Snip) “Etched into the bone by a highly …
Tag: Pleistocene
Who Were the Cannibals?
More and more it has been suggested that we interacted little if at all with our close cousins the Neanderthals. Though there is still some controversy it mostly seems that we did not interbreed, finding each other too strange. Some have wondered, more in literature than in science, if the appearance of our hairier relaatives …
The “Mammoth Killer”
Walter Hingley sent this good collection of links, pro and con, on the possible asteroid hit that may have contributed too the late- time extinctions. Maybe we didn’t eat them all.
Re- Wilding
Laura Niven sends a link to this Wired magazine piece on the controversial practice of “Re- Wilding” — reintroducing the megafauna to environments that have lost them. To me the most interesting part is that Sergey Zimov’s Pleistocene Park is succeeding as predicted in changing swampy taiga to biologically more productive steppe. This agrees with …
First Dogs?
New candidates for the first dogs? HT Cat Urbigkit. Maybe, though there also may be at least one older claimant. I wonder if DNA supports the multiple origins idea?
Teeth
Polymath scientist- archaeologist- artist- writer- rancher Joe Hutto blew through the other day after running down to Catron County, on his way to home in Wyoming via the Carolinas. He brought us a beautiful dark Late Pleistocene mammoth tooth he had retrieved from the black waters of the Auscilla River on the border of Florida …
Meteor Strike Update
Dr. Valerius Geist has some ideas. “There may be some thing to this meteor strike. However, the cosmic event did not get rid of megaherbivores, such as mammoth and mastodons. However, the short, but severe depletion pf large prey may have eliminated Arctodus simus, and Miracinonyx. They seem to be gone about 13,000 BP. With …
Ice Age Impact?
Scroll down from here to that title to hear a Canadian broadcast on the possible 13,000- year old meteor strike that may have been implicated in the North American Pleistocene extinctions. We will be hearing more about this. (HT Walter Hingley).