9000 yr old tools in Baja

[dogteam]

9,000-Year-Old Tools Found in Mexico | Fox News Latino

[rokdok]

How many here would have even bothered to pick these up? Just curious.

[meetmaker]

I pick up ugly artifacts all the time, can't help myself.

[joshuaream]

Originally Posted by rokdok

How many here would have even bothered to pick these up? Just curious.

I would have picked them up, taken a couple of pictures and probably put them back down.

Here is a short section of the article that I thought was curious.

"The objects were found at an archaeological site known as El Coyote, located in the Los Cabos region, the INAH said, adding that they "bolster the hypothesis" that the first colonists of the hemisphere populated the region via watercraft migration, following coastlines from northeast Asia southward into the Americas.

The researchers found cut and polished seashells, fishing devices and stone tools used for cutting and scraping (choppers, percussive devices, planes, scrapers and knives) that date back between 8,600 and 9,300 years."

These are a couple thousand years younger than Clovis, without even thinking about anything pre-clovis... There are older fluted points south of this site, so I'm not sure how these particular pieces bolster the theory that the first groups came south down the coast via boat. It's like saying that archaic pieces at the Gault site support the Clovis first model.

[rokdok]

Joshua, i agree 100%.Just plain bad science.