[meteorite-list] Clovis range predates and postdates hypothetical Younger Dryas Event

Paul etchplain at att.net
Sat Oct 24 14:02:20 EDT 2020


Clovis people: Narrow window of tool-making
Tools made by some of North America's earliest
  inhabitants were made only during a 300-year period
Texas A&M University, PhysOrg, October 23, 2020
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/10/201023123104.htm

Clovis range is ~13,050 to 12,750 cal yr B.P.
according to Figure 2 of below paper. Thus, this
interpretation has Clovis culture unaffected by
whatever happened at the Younger Dryas Boundary.

The Open Access paper is:

Michael R. Waters, Thomas W. Stafford, David L.
Carlson. The age of Clovis—13,050 to 12,750 cal yr
B.P.. Science Advances, 2020; 6 (43): eaaz0455
https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/43/eaaz0455

Yours,

Paul H.


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