[Aztlan] 13, 000 year old Clovis tools used to butcher camels and horses

[michael ruggeri]

Listeros,

A Clovis tool cache known as the Mahaffey cache found near Boulder,  
Colorado shows signs of having been used to butcher camels and horses  
13,000 years ago. Horse and camel protein residue was found on the  
tools. Also sheep and bear residue was found on the tools.

The Clovis cache consists of 83 stone tools ranging from knives to  
small blades and scrapers. The tools appear to have been buried 13,000  
years ago for safe keeping in one large cache. One of the tools, an  
oval-shaped obsidian knife, is very similar to one found in the Fenn  
Cache south of Yellowstone National Park.

Elephants, camels, huge bears and ground sloths roamed the Colorado  
era at this time in history.

The University of Colorado at Boulder News has the story here with a  
very nice audio slide show of the cache.
http://www.colorado.edu/news/r/1124c0243883c267a7759da4bc4a2902.html

A tiny URL;
http://tinyurl.com/aoh54w

Mike Ruggeri

You can see photos of the Fenn Cache on my Pre-Clovis and Clovis web  
page;

Mike Ruggeri's Pre-Clovis and Clovis World
http://tinyurl.com/2m8725

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