Channel Islands "fishing Tackle"

[Buckeye]

Interesting...A treasure trove of finely crafted fishing spearheads from 12,000 years ago has been discovered on the Channel Islands of California. They are a clue to the lifestyles of some of the earliest American settlers, and suggest that two separate cultures lived in North America at the time: one, the well-known Clovis culture, lived inland and feasted on mammoths, mastodons and other mammals; the other was a coastal culture with a taste for seafood.
(Don't know if it's been posted here yet)

the rest is here:

Found: fine American fishing tackle, 12 millennia old - life - 03 March 2011 - New Scientist

[paleo_joe]

Another crack in Clovis-centricity. I wonder how many CA collectors have these clovis-age points but have no idea what they really are!

[eddies]

that was a good read,thanks for the post

[Flyjunkie]

Hot Damn!!!! My Vandenberg Contracting Stems are the same age as Clovis!!!!!!!!!!

I had always felt that the Vandenbergs where most likely used as Harpoon tips to take down Seals and Sea Lions... Especially the Bigger versions found along the Mainland Coast...

Thank You for Posting this Link!!!!! always wonderful to learn more about my "backyard".....

[joshuaream]

For those who like crescents, check out the article... It's worth the click.

[Ditch digger]

Thanks for sharing. Interesting read.

[uniface]

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California islands give up evidence of early seafaring

Ancient Californians: Seafood was fave meal - CBS News

[homestyle]

Thanks for posting the links everyone. Neat article, I'd love to see more of the artifacts they recovered. Most curious to me is the difference between the points found with crescents in the great basin and the points they found with crescents. It's more evidence of crescent use being linked to some type of activity related to shorelines. I have always wondered what they were used for and maybe these guys will figure it out.

[uniface]

Double post

[uniface]

It makes me wonder. There they have shell middens dating to the Clovis era. Elsewhere these signal the Archaic. Could that point to the spread of the originally coastal shellfish diet people across the country, filling the void the herd hunters left whenever they went to that great happy hunting ground in the sky (and maybe did so with their assistance) ?