Cultural History » pleistocene http://www.scarcliff.com/cultural-history Thu, 13 Oct 2011 23:08:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 New Dates For Clovis Sites http://www.scarcliff.com/cultural-history/2007/12/new-dates-for-clovis-sites/ http://www.scarcliff.com/cultural-history/2007/12/new-dates-for-clovis-sites/#comments Mon, 17 Dec 2007 14:32:35 +0000 Brent http://www.scarcliff.com/cultural-history/2007/12/new-dates-for-clovis-sites/ Continue reading →]]> New radiocarbon dates kept the controversy over the peopling of the Americas simmering in 2007. An analysis of dates for the best-documented Clovis sites suggests the culture arose later and was shorter-lived than once thought, a finding that some say deals a blow to the “Clovis first” theories that maintain the big-game-hunting people were the first immigrants to the New World.

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]]> http://www.scarcliff.com/cultural-history/2007/12/ancient-shell-necklace/feed/ 0 Coming Home To The Pleistocene http://www.scarcliff.com/cultural-history/2007/11/coming-home-to-the-pleistocene/ http://www.scarcliff.com/cultural-history/2007/11/coming-home-to-the-pleistocene/#comments Mon, 26 Nov 2007 19:07:53 +0000 Brent http://www.scarcliff.com/cultural-history/2007/11/coming-home-to-the-pleistocene/ Continue reading →]]> “When we grasp fully that the best expressions of our humanity were not invented by civilization but by cultures that preceded it, that the natural world is not only a set of constraints but of contexts within which we can more fully realize our dreams, we will be on the way to a long overdue reconciliation between opposites which are of our own making.”

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