Re: [Geology2] Indian tribes join forces to save petroglyph site

I just saw a program the other night...think it was Nova...about a place in Snowmass, Colorado where they found all these Mastodon bones. The guys digging there speculated that there was an earthquake about  several thousand years ago and the Mastodon families that were standing around the lake shore were caught when the ground became liquid and then hardened back up again.  So there were a lot of bones from different individuals...but the interesting thing is that a level above that was  a mastodon carcass that was located with a lot of boulders in and around it...and no boulders anywhere else. Also one of the bones showed some very linear and parallel marks that didn't look like gnawing. The speculation was that hunters had cached the mastodon in the lake to keep it fresh... but this would have been way earlier than the Bering land bridge migration theory that is currently popular. Iwill see if I can find the Nova episode online somewhere...Idon't doubt that hunters did come over the land bridge but what if that was a later migration....? Allison

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/science/jan-june12/novaiceage_02-01.html

This link will talk about the mastodons but not about the bones that might have been cached. sigh...got to look for that one.

From: Rick Bates <HappyMoosePhoto@gmail.com>
To: geology2@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, February 6, 2012 8:49 PM
Subject: RE: [Geology2] Indian tribes join forces to save petroglyph site

 

And to some Asians.  It is believed that some crossed an ice bridge; some staying in what is now Alaska and some moving to the Southwest.  Besides DNA matching, the languages and oral histories bear strong similarities (common words).

 

Alaskans include Aleuts, Inuits and others.

 

Rick

 

From: LadyTozi@aol.com

It is amazing that the Dine and Hopi have joined forces for protect these sites.  Also for the trivia file, Dine and Apaches are related to the Eskimos (can't remember how to spell the proper name) and to no other Native American tribe. 

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