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A 130,000-year-old archaeological site in southern California, USA

Steven R. Holen, Thomas A. Deméré, Daniel C. Fisher

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Richard Fullagar, James B. Paces, George T. Jefferson, Jared M. Beeton, Richard A. Cerutti, Adam N. Rountrey, Lawrence Vescera, Kathleen A. Holen

2017 · Nature

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> Graham Hancock isn't a reliable source for anything. He was on these. Bluefish Caves and Old Crow Flats were published in Canadian Journal of Archaeology, White Sands in Science, Hartley Mammoth site in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, Cerutti Mastodon site and Monte Verde in Nature. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41102194 https://www.jstor.org/stable/41102449 https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abg7586 https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fevo.2022.90379... https://www.nature.com/articles/nature22065 https://www.nature.com/articles/332150a0
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> For nearly 2 million years, ancient humans crafted stones into hand-size balls, but archaeologists were unsure why. Wait, for nearly 2 million years ... humans? Starting and ending when? Do we have human remains from more than 2 million years ago? Turkana Boy is 1.5 million years old and close to modern physiology, once you get back to 2 million isn't it australopithicus and such? > That changed when Assaf and her team came across a cache of 30 stone balls in Qesem Cave in Israel, where humans lived from about 400,000 to 200,000 years ago I wonder if 2 million is a typo for 200 thousand? > these stones "might have helped enhance human caloric intake and adaptation in…
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the lower Paleolithic period," (2.7 million to 200,000 years ago), at Qesem Cave and possibly beyond, the researchers wrote in the study. Whew, OK, so 2.7 million years ago is their starting point on this. That's interesting. Who was shaping stones that far back? An interesting other site is the Cerutti Mastodon site in San Diego with 130kYBP mastodon bones possibly crushed with similar stones which were found at the site. https://www.nature.com/articles/nature22065
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