[meteorite-list] Holocene start impacts

From: E.P. Grondine <epgrondine_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 11:56:29 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <140130.89382.qm_at_web36904.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Hi all -

I feel the need to make a record of a review of a
lithics collection I did Monday with one of the
nation's top quarry experts in Greeneville, Ohio.

What I saw was a disappearance of Clovis, set
generally at 11,000 BCE instead of the more exact
10,900 BCE of Kenneth et al.. There was a survival of
an "Agate" (name if memory serves) lithic tradition,
which first appeared just east of the Rockies.

The only quarries in the east whose continued use was
attested were from Tennessee and Georgia.

Then the Flint Ridge quarry came back into use, along
with heads for caribou hunting.

But all this new development stopped ca. 8,000 BCE,
roughly in accord with the more exact 8,350 BCE from
Remington Quarry. This rapid change in culture is
commonly attributed to a gradual change in forest, but
the rapidity of it leads one to pause...

Now it may be that the changes in climate were
unrelated to the impacts which occurred roughly at the
same time, but I doubt it. The devastating effects on
people reflected in this data I leave to your
imagination...

Also, I want to make a record of what may be a Shawnee
account of the Holocene start impacts preserved in
Gatschet's notes, "The Battle of the Good Mind and Bad
Mind". David Cusick's Tusacarora variant of this,
though without the impact details, is given in my book
"Man and Impact in the Americas".

E.P. Grondine
Man and Impact in the Americas








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