[meteorite-list] Clovis range predates and postdates hypothetical Younger Dryas Event

From: Paul <etchplain_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2020 13:02:20 -0500
Message-ID: <dc00f613-a67d-d0d6-2749-402c2c897995_at_att.net>

Clovis people: Narrow window of tool-making
Tools made by some of North America's earliest
 ?inhabitants were made only during a 300-year period
Texas A&M University, PhysOrg, October 23, 2020
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/10/201023123104.htm

Clovis range is ~13,050 to 12,750 cal yr B.P.
according to Figure 2 of below paper. Thus, this
interpretation has Clovis culture unaffected by
whatever happened at the Younger Dryas Boundary.

The Open Access paper is:

Michael R. Waters, Thomas W. Stafford, David L.
Carlson. The age of Clovis?13,050 to 12,750 cal yr
B.P.. Science Advances, 2020; 6 (43): eaaz0455
https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/43/eaaz0455

Yours,

Paul H.
Received on Sat 24 Oct 2020 02:02:20 PM PDT