[meteorite-list] Age of Man

From: Michael Fowler <mqfowler_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 22:27:19 -0500
Message-ID: <9A988219-AA3E-4E8E-80E1-43DB14EEBB88_at_mac.com>

Hi Sterling,

It is a rare day that I ever have anything to add to your eloquent and
informative posts, let alone disagree, but here goes......

Steen-McIntyre's dating as mentioned in the wikipedia link you
supplied as well as everywhere else on the web is 250,000 years ago.

The dating of the ash layer that is below (and therefore younger than
her finds) is 40,000 years ago. (also from the link you provided)

I could not disagree more when you say they get the same dating she
does.

Sincerely,

Mike Fowler
Chicago

additional link with a fairly balanced view: http://books.google.com/books?id=jWgZPz6oXSwC&pg=PA106&lpg=PA106&dq=Hueyatlaco&source=bl&ots=rAPBgltpZU&sig=1BX2HlTLv9PDQzk5AJMGc1CnEQ4&hl=en&ei=vVM8Su_BBcOEtwfTtYUB&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4


> Hi, and here we go...
>
> Yes, the video is a whacko video; the authors
> of Forbidden Archaeology are whackoes, everything
> Darren said. But this is a case, all too common in
> the internet/media age, of whackoes exploiting a
> genuine issue for their own whacko enrichment.
>
> Forgetting for a moment about UFO's, Atlantis,
> and Charlton Heston with Alzheimer's (so sad),
> look at the evidence. Apart from the whacko Whitney
> relics, almost all the video was about the Hueyatlaco
> site and Steen-McIntyre.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hueyatlaco
> The Heyatlaco site is not Steen-McIntyre's dig.
> Work was done there by many archaeologists and
> geologists; she was called in as a geologist whose
> specialty is dating. The others involved with the site
> have published quietly (but without dates) and no
> (big) problems. Steen-McIntyre, the dater, was left
> to defend her work, which she does. Who wouldn't?
>
> You can find her academic background and
> resume at the website about a related "old" site:
> http://www.valsequilloclassic.net/
>
> The dating has been done over by "outside" experts
> with no archeological axes to grind, from NASA:
> http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2007AGUFMGP43A0925R
> They get the same dates she does...
Received on Fri 19 Jun 2009 11:27:19 PM PDT