More on: 13,000-year-old tools unearthed at Colorado home

[Adsos Letter]

Source: Associated Press
ALYSIA PATTERSON

DENVER – Landscapers were digging a hole for a fish pond in the front yard of a Boulder home last May when they heard a "chink" that didn't sound right. Just some lost tools. Some 13,000-year-old lost tools. They had stumbled onto a cache of more than 83 ancient tools buried by the Clovis people — ice age hunter-gatherers who remain a puzzle to anthropologists.

The home's owner, Patrick Mahaffy, thought they were only a century or two old before contacting researchers at the University of Colorado-Boulder.

"My jaw just dropped," said CU anthropologist Douglas Bamforth, who is leading a study of the find. "Boulder is a densely populated area. And in the midst of all that to find this cache."

The cache is one of only a handful of Clovis-age artifacts uncovered in North America, said Bamforth.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090226/ap_on_sc/ancient_tools

[brooklynite]

1. I'm confused...

Why would God bury 3,000 year old tools for archaeologists to find when he created the world 10,000 years ago?

[villager]

2. 13,000 years old? Nay, perhaps a *pair* of 6,000 year old tools!

the math works out nearly the same, yes?

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. Those were the pre-adamic people, heathens really

the chapter that got lost when they looked at Genesis

[L. Coyote]

4. VIDEO: evidence of camel, horse butchering, more than 80 stone implements discovered

VIDEO: http://www.colorado.edu/news/r/1124c0243883c267a7759da4bc4a2902.html

13,000 Clovis-era tool cache unearthed in Colorado shows evidence of camel, horse butchering
More than 80 stone implements discovered together in Boulder city limits by landscapers
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-02/uoca-1ct022509.php

A biochemical analysis of a rare Clovis-era stone tool cache recently unearthed in the city limits of Boulder, Colo., indicates some of the implements were used to butcher ice-age camels and horses that roamed North America until their extinction about 13,000 years ago, according to a University of Colorado at Boulder study.

The study is the first to identify protein residue from extinct camels on North American stone tools and only the second to identify horse protein residue on a Clovis-age tool, ..........

[Orrex]

5. What's more amazing is that the Clovis people apparently had the same landscaping idea

A fish pond during the ice age?!? Who'd've thunk it?!?


Very cool article--thanks for posting!

[Wiley50]

6. Does the 13,000 year old Skil Saw still work? n/t

[GoesTo11]

7. I'm still hoping to unearth my rechargable drill

and quite a few other tools. Less than 13,000 years old, but no easier to find.

[Joe the Liberal]

8. I wonder if any of those tools belonged to John McCain! n/t