pre-clovis hunting tool

[mbrandenburg]

Paleo CSI: Early Hunters Left Mastodon Murder Weapon Behind - Yahoo! News

Anybody have one of these?

[kirby]

Very Interesting.

Thanks for sharing.

[paleo_joe]

A point made of bone and carbon dated to 13,800 BP is a major major discovery. Congrats to the rancher who made the find and turned it over to the archies who did the research.

[rgs]

I posted the same read from my local paper, but it was not nearly as good as the article you posted.

[mootsman]

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/25/sc...5mastodon.html

Getting more mainstream press.

[eddies]

Very cool pic of it

[Marshall Ellis]

I am allways tickeled when I read stuff like this. Read these 2 sentences again. Did the guy who wrote this think that the ribs were painted on the sides of the animals. Probably tyin to do this or that, DUH.

"We're fortunate that the hunter 13,800 years ago was probably trying to get that bone projectile point in between the ribs, probably trying to get at a vital organ," said study researcher Michael Waters, an anthropologist at the Center for the Study of the First Americans at Texas A&M University. "Maybe the mastodon flinched or his thrust was off, and he hit a rib instead and broke his bone projectile point.

[KPT]

Science moves like the glaciers themselves. Many great discoveries; such as the Manis Kill Site, are refuted for years before they are actually acknowledge. And yes many thanks to the people who made this long awaited confirmation a reality: the Manis family for offering the evidence, Carl Gusafson of WSU for his 2 years research, and Michael Waters of Texas A&M for his recent analysis.
If it were not for modern technology; such as mass spectometery, CT scan, and DNA analysis, Carl Gustafson's reputation would still be suspect even though 35 years ago he dated the site to within 200 years (14,000 BP vs 13,800 BP).
It looks to me like modern technology needs to take a bow to Carl Gustafson!

[Mojave]

Here is a blog discussion on Quentin Mackie's website that has been going on for months on this subject at:

Manis Mastodon: a 13,800 year old Archaeological Site on the Northwest Coast | Northwest Coast Archaeology

Not to derail anyone's thread but the following statement is curious:

"Bone and ivory points and other tools are common in the Upper Paleolithic of Siberia and in late Pleistocene sites in Beringia (22–24). "