Archaeologists in the state of Wyoming have unearthed some super cool findings, which are the oldest Paleoindian artifacts to be discovered on the North American continent a new report published Sunday revealed. This kind of stuff has always been interesting to me, especially as a person who is fascinated with ancient history.
Here’s more on what they dug up via The Daily Caller:
A team working at the Powars II dig site near Sunrise, Wyoming, have reportedly uncovered artifacts dating back 14,000 years, predating one of the oldest known prehistoric American cultures, according to Cowboy State Daily. Despite repeated destruction through localized mining efforts, items such as stone tools have been recovered, some laying undisturbed for thousands of years, the outlet noted in an earlier report.
“We know there’s a main camp here somewhere,” lead archaeologist George Zeimans went on to tell the outlet. “It’s just figuring out where it is.”
REPORT: Human Artifacts Dating Back 14,000 Years Discovered In Wyoming | @DailyCaller
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This particular site, Sunrise, is just one of a number of others located all across the United States that contain the long buried secrets of human civilization before the time period that scientists refer to as Clovis culture, which existed about 13,050 to 12,750 years ago.
America’s oldest hunting weapon was uncovered at the Manis site in Washington in the 1970s, but it wasn’t until the 2020s that data revealed it to be at least 13,900 years old. Footprints at White Sands National Park in New Mexico were also dated to well-before Clovis. The latest data suggests our ancient ancestors wandered through the U.S. some 21,000 to 23,000 years ago.
An upcoming book from the Sunrise team will detail their full findings at Powars II, Cowboy State Daily noted. And I can’t wait to read it.
A report from Cowboy State Daily also provided details about who the Clovis People were as a culture. The Clovis were discovered by a group of amateur archaeologists located in Clovis, New Mexico, when a set of really old fluted spearheads were found during a dig. For quite some time it was believed the Clovis were the oldest prehistoric culture to exist.
The Clovis people lived in what is now present-day New Mexico amid lush grasslands populated with mammoths, giant bison, dire wolves, camels, gigantic turtles and ground sloths, as well as the terrifying saber-toothed tiger.
Their flint projectiles, discovered in Clovis, were found in relation to the bones of extinct mammoths that once stood 14 feet high and weighed 8 to 10 tons. Archaeological experts say each of these behemoths could have eaten more than 700 pounds of vegetation daily.
The Clovis didn’t rely solely on big game, but experts in ancient cultures believe they were “opportunists,” meaning they mostly subsisted on whatever nature provided them. This might have included nuts, seeds, roots, fish, small mammals and even birds.
We really don’t know a whole lot about the Clovis due to many of the materials they used to make their clothes and other items were organic, which means they weren’t preserved as well as those of other ancient cultures.
The Clovis people seemed to have moved from the New Mexico area after the disappearance of large animals, which some researchers have speculated may have been caused by a meteor impact in Canada.
Cool, right?