Cool Discoveries in 2012

[Kiwon]

Any History fans here?

Here's an interesting article about some of the archaeological discoveries in 2012

http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2012/12/10/2012-in-review-9-important-archaeological-discoveries/

[sooner6600]

Nice

[red]

very cool

[Kiwon]

Not an archaeological discovery but kind of cool nonetheless.

http://www.grindtv.com/outdoor/blog/47239/photographers+amazing+image+reveals+tornado+of+schooling+fish/

[woodbuck27]

Clovis People Were Not Alone During Early Colonization of the Americas

By: Kate Wong July 13, 2012

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2012/07/13/clovis-people-had-company-in-early-colonization-of-the-americas/

Once upon a time, the initial migration of humans into the New World looked like a very tidy story: the so-called Clovis people, it appeared, were the first to enter the Americas, arriving from Siberia by land bridge and spreading across the continental U.S. in pursuit of large game animals, leaving behind their telltale fluted stone tools and other remains.

But in recent years, discoveries of remains that appear to pre-date the Clovis culture have upended that Clovis First scenario.

Now new findings from the Paisley Caves in Oregon join the growing body of evidence that the human colonization of the Americas was more complex than researchers once thought, showing that a separate technological tradition co-existed with the Clovis one and may well have preceded it

In the new study, published in the July 13 Science, Dennis Jenkins of the University of Oregon and his colleagues report on high-precision radiocarbon dating of more than 100 new samples from Paisley Caves that establish the chronology of the site and put the oldest stone points at more than 13,000 years old, making them at least as old as the oldest known Clovis artifacts elsewhere.