Ancient Tools At High Desert Site Go Back 135,000 Years

[Viggen]

In the multicolored hills overlooking the Mojave River Valley, the excavation of stone tools and flakes reveals human activities from the distant past. A new system of geologic dating has confirmed that an alluvial deposit bearing the stone tools and flakes at the Calico archaeological site is about 135,000 years old. But the site could even be older.

 

Calico project director Fred Budinger Jr. said a soil sample, taken at a depth of 17 1/2 feet in one of three master pits at the dig near Yermo, verifies that the deposit dates to the Middle Pleistocene Epoch - the Ice Age. "This new date confirms earlier estimates that humans were in the Manix Basin, near the base of the Calico Mountains, as early as 125,000 to 200,000 years ago," Budinger said.

 

full article at Sbsun.com

[Pertinax]

64,000 tools -thats a lot of human effort

[FLavius Valerius Constantinus]

Wait so humans were in North America 125,000 years ago rather than 19,000 years ago. I'm so confused.

[Pantagathus]

Wait so humans were in North America 125,000 years ago rather than 19,000 years ago. I'm so confused.

 

There are also sites on the east coast from Georgia to Virginia that are yielding dates ~ 50,000 years old.

 

Though, it's important to remember that the evidence from the Calico site is from at time that it would have been left by homo erectus not homo sapiens which is even more of a slam to orthodox theory...

Edited November 26, 2005 by Pantagathus