[Aztlan] INAH follow up on Clovis in Sonora

[michael ruggeri]

Listeros,

I recently posted the story "Clovis roamed south" about the discovery  
of a Clovis site at El Fin del Mundo in Sonora. INAH has a follow up  
on the discovery. There is a 25,000 year old stratigraphic sequence at  
the site and the remains of a species that were part of the now  
extinct Gomphotheriidae family have been found there. INAH has been  
working at Sonora Paleo-indian sites for 10 years. Before this newest  
find, it was unknown that Clovis people hunted gomphotheres. It was  
thought they were extinct 30,000 years ago. 300 Clovis artifacts  
dating to 11,000 BCE have been found at the site including 12 slabs  
used to hunt and dismember animals and Clovis points of white quartz  
and white flint. INAH is working the site with the University of  
Arizona and will begin its next excavations in February 2010.

INAH has the story here;
http://dti.inah.gob.mx/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogsection&id=39&Itemid=150

A tiny URL;
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Mike Ruggeri

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