I'll only believe it when they find the trampled remains of the dude who gave the mastodon a bad headache.

'The 'Clovis First' theory, which many scientists swore to just a few years back, has finally been buried with the conclusions of this study.

They's trollin

cgraves67: I'll only believe it when they find the trampled remains of the dude who gave the mastodon a bad headache.



Yeah, that dude almost killed him. You can see the tatoo on his forehead where the brain surgery scar is. I don't know what the dude's name was, but I sure hope he got trampled. He almost killed one of the members of one of the best rock bands around. Bastard.

Why ruin a perfectly good vacuum with a spear?

A whole 1000 years huh?

Any evidence of ancient gravel pits?

Personally, I can't wait until they clone enough of them that we can start hunting them again with stuff like this:

It's a living...

Mormons?

It was ancient aliens.

Are they sure it wasn't some prehistoric wingnut stabbing a long-dead corpse to show the ladies how "brave" he was in that winter of '06?

Don't you people know mastodons (link) were just hairy elephants, not dinosaurs?

deeproy: It's a living...

Came for this

All bets are off. The medical examiner ruled the mastadon's death a suicide.

He fell on his own spear after his life savings went up in toxic credit default swaps.

GilRuiz1: 'The 'Clovis First' theory, which many scientists swore to just a few years back, has finally been buried with the conclusions of this study.

They's trollin

Yeah, looks like someone conveniently forgot about Monte Verde, way down in Chile.

Whuh? The person who wrote the article is either ignorant of, ignoring, or intentionally writing around a whole slew of variant theories about the emigration of early humans to the Americas. Almost none of these would be seriously disturbed by a variance of 1,000 years.

There are ranges of tens of thousands of years between perfectly reasonable theories - some say 12-15k years ago, others 50k, others much more recent.

But "Clovis first" isn't dogma and disputing it isn't too hard - there are settlements in South America that appear to be pre-Clovis, and that's a long way from Alaska.

You know there's a poor guy named Thag underneath, it was his first kill.

What else can Varmalov do?

Dick Clark is that old, huh?

Now that's interesting! An actual spear point from pre-history embedded in the bone of an extinct animal. That's farking awesome. Scientists wet themselves thinking about finding stuff like this.

Lamanites and nephite tribes.

chuggernaught: Now that's interesting! An actual spear point from pre-history embedded in the bone of an extinct animal. That's farking awesome. Scientists wet themselves thinking about finding stuff like this.

Calf Creek Arrow (new window)

Kome: Mormons?

sexy-fetus: Lamanites and nephite tribes.

That old? Naaah. Jaredites.

I wonder how good mastodon steak was... I bet the tenderloins were delicious. I think I would cook up some nice mushrooms and perhaps some steamed asparagus to go with it.

JohnnyC: I wonder how good mastodon steak was... I bet the tenderloins were delicious. I think I would cook up some nice mushrooms and perhaps some steamed asparagus to go with it.

Give it a few years, and we might be able to find out. Gonna cost a few million dollars per pound, though.