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Who’s First Residents of North America?

Thu, 27 Oct 2011 09:10:13 +0000

For years, the Clovis people or Indians Ancient hominid remains are believed to beresidents of North America, about 13,000 years ago. However, recent evidence suggests,before the Clovis people, had no previous human who became residents of the area.

The conclusion was made after the discovery of ”the eyes of the bone” ribs sticking inmastodon. Eye of bone is one of the primitive weapons used to kill animals. Whilemastodons were large animals of the genus Mammut, has thus resemble elephant tusks.Bone age was estimated to 13 800 years, so older than the Clovis people.

“The eyes of the bone it is the first weapon that was found referring to the pre-Clovis. Theyuse them to hunt mastodons,” said Michael R Waters, an archaeologist at Texas A & MUniversity.

Fossilized mastodon rib eye bone has actually been found since 1970 in a place calledSweet site. Gustavon when it stated that age was 14,000 years ribs. At that time, the opinion of Waters doubted by scientists. However, carbon dating carried out have shownthat bone age was nearly 14,000 years.

A CT scan is performed also showed bone right eye is a primitive weapon. Waters foundthat the length of the eye the bones of more than 25 cm and the tip runcing.Watersexpress, pre-Clovis people are setting foot in North America from northeastern Asia and the middle, through territory that is now part of Alaska.

Waters also said that pre-Clovis people not only have a bone tool, but previously alsostone tools. Pre-Clovis people already familiar with simple technology. Pre-Clovis peopleis probably the first inhabitants of North America.

American Pre-clovis Culture

Sun, 25 Sep 2011 13:00:12 +0000

Texas A prehistoric site changes the scenario of the peopling of the Americas by humans. Last thirty years dominates the Clovis first model, that is to say, the idea that the first Paléoaméricains were the bearers of culture known as Clovis. This culture of stone carving, which appeared after the last glaciation, some 13,000 years ago, is characterized by beautiful bifacial points, which are reminiscent of the beautiful productions of lithic Solutrean culture that occupied the West of Europe during the ice age. The evidence of the emergence of cultures pre-Clovis culture in America accumulated in recent years. But proponents of the first Clovis were still doubtful, their dating is questionable.

The excavations conducted by Michael Waters, of the University of Texas A & M, and his team on the shores of Buttermilk Creek, Texas, changed all that. There, not far from a Clovis site, groups of hunter-gatherers for millennia came cutting flint pebbles scattered in the vicinity in order to obtain tools and other microblades for cutting carcasses. At each passage, they have left thousands of pieces, the regular floods then covered and sealed. A stack stratigraphic was thus constituted: at the bottom, a layer rich in tools outside the Clovis culture, after which several intermediate layers containing pre-Clovis tools, then a layer characteristic of the Clovis culture, and so on until the late prehistory. As all these layers do not contain any organic residue, researchers have dated by optically stimulated luminescence (OSL or for Optical Stimulated Luminescence). This technique allows a deduction of the light energy still trapped in the grains of quartz and feldspar in the clay content, the date of the last exhibition of these grains in the sun. Researchers have established that the layer at the base of the stack remonstrate with some 15 500 years, that is to say more than 2000 years before the first material evidence of the Clovis culture.

The Buttermilk Creek site confirms that we had not been mistaken in a number of pre-Clovis lithic assemblages found in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Oregon, Florida and Texas. At Buttermilk, a striking detail: the tools from intermediate layers preceding the layer of Clovis have been shaped by bifacial reduction, a technique similar to that developed later by the Clovis culture. This suggests a continuity between the Clovis culture and the cultures that preceded it. Now the question is no longer Clovis first?, But Who Came First?

Europe After the Fall of Rome

Tue, 05 May 2009 11:32:00 +0000

After the fall of the Western half of the ancient Roman Empire. This great civilization finally collapsed in 410 A.D. mainly because of political corruption, barbarian invasion, financial collapse, poor leadership, and a move of the capital from Rome to Constantinople . The fall of the city was when it was stormed after a two-year siege by the Goths under King Alaric. These barbarians were once allies to Rome during the defense against Attila. But they turned against their allies with greed and took advantage of a great but vulnerable, defenseless city. The city was sacked while the citizens were murdered, raped, enslaved and robbed. With the mother of the world and civilization dead, most learning, trade, education, and other forms of progress stalled. Eventually, the innovation of Rome was completely stopped, life in Europe began to regress. To a time that we now call the Dark Ages.

The Dark ages were a period between the Fall of Rome and the rebirth of progress called the Renaissance. These times were defined by Feudalism, plague and growth in the Catholic Church. One of the largest remnants the Roman Empire.

One of the most prominent Kingdoms during the Dark ages was the Frankish Empire. The founder of the Kingdom and all famous Merovingian dynasty was Clovis. A once pagan ruler turned Catholic who protected Christendom and spread his empire. At about fifteen years of age, he took a small band of warriors that he had inherited. With these men he began to conquer each of the local tribes. One by one. Eventually, his once small kingdom stretched almost the size of Modern France. Clovis was known as a brutal ruler. At any sign of a rebellion, he slaughtered any involved. Despite his brutality, Clovis offered stability for his loyal subjects. In a time such as the Dark Ages, this spark of civilization was welcome.

Back in the Eastern half of the Roman Empire, Constantinople was still flourishing. Trade, education and progress was still active. The Emperor Justinian and his wife, Empress Theodora dreamed of reuniting the Empire by re-conquering the Latin West. Legions were sent to the old territory and were successful at re-conquering Italy and a few other regions in the West. However, at the death of the Emperor and his wife, the Eastern Empire pulled troops out of the newly re-conquered territory. This was the end of any attempt to retake and revive the old Empire.