Meet your 15,000 year old American ancestors

William Atkins
Friday, 25 March 2011 23:31

Science - Biology

An important piece of evidence was just uncovered in the Hill Country of Texas. It shows that humans were living in the Americas before the Clovis people, as far back as 15,000 years ago.

The discovery, by U.S. scientists, was made along Buttermilk Creek, an area northwest of Austin, in the Hill Country of central Texas.

In all, 56 stone tools were found about four feet (around 1.2 meters) under the ground at the Debra L. Friedkin Site.

Some of the stone tools found were knife blades, scrapers, and spear points. Over 15,000 flakes and chips were also found to have been the work of early human craftsmen.

Archeologists are stating that this adds to overwhelming evidence that humans did, indeed, live in the Americas before the Clovis people.

These Clovis people, first discovered in the 1930s near the town of Clovis in New Mexico, lived in the Americas beginning around 13,000 years ago. The Clovis culture included distinctively notched arrowheads.

These Clovis people and their tools have seen discovered in North America at many different locations.

However, these pre-Clovis people (how about we call them Hill Country people) now are thought to pre-date the Clovis people by about 2,000 years.

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