PRE PLEISTOCENE AND PLEISTOCENE ERA PEOPLES

BACK ABOUT 10,000 YEARS AGO THERE WERE PEOPLE LIVING IN THE AMERICAS WITH A MORE LUSH ENVIRONMENT. THESE INDIANS HUNTED BIG GAME ANIMALS SUCH AS GIANT MASTODON AND MAMMOTHS, BISON, BEAVERS, AS WELL AS SABER-TOOTH TIGERS, GIANT SLOTHS, LARGE TURTLES, RETILES AND FISH. IN @ 1976 I HELPED EXCAVATE AN UNUSUAL MASTODON SITE AT A FARM WHERE I HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEND THE SUMMER AT A HOPEWELL SITE AS WELL. I VOLUNTEERED AND WORKED FOR THE DAYTON MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY. HERE WE FOUND THE REMAINS OF A NUMBER OF PLEISTOCENE BONES MIXED WITH SEVERAL PROJECTILE POINTS THAT DATED TO THE CLOVIS ERA. ONE WAS EMBEDDED INTO A LEG BONE OF A MASTODON. THIS SITE WAS A LARGE BOG SITE WHERE THE BEASTS AND FISH GOT TRAPPED DUE TO THE MUDDY CIRCUMSTANCES.

PREHISTORIC PEOPLE CAME ACROSS THE BERINGA OR BERING STRAIT DURING ABOUT 25,000 TO 75,000 YEARS AGO AND THEY MIGRATED ALL THE WAY TO MEXICO AND SOUTH AMERICA. THEY COULD HAVE COME BY BOATS OR BY FOOT. THE TOOLS FOUND BY ARCHAEOLOGISTS WERE BONE AND STONE TOOLS FOR BUTCHERING THE ANIMALS, FISHING AND SCRAPING THE HIDES. AS EARLY AS 17,000 YEARS AGO THEY PAINTED PICTOGRAPHS AND PETROGLYPHS ON THEIR CAVE WALLS. PEOPLE IN AUSTRALIA, AFRICA, AND EUROPE ALSO DECORATED THEIR CAVES. IN EUROPE THE EARLIEST PAINTINGS WERE OF ANIMALS. SOME SHOWED PICTURES WITH PEOPLE USING SPEAR-THROWERS. A CAVE IN THE ANDES MAY HAVE BEEN DATED TO BER 25,000 TO 15,000 B.P. THEY FOUND BONES OF EXTINCT HORSE, CAMELS, SABER-TOOTHER TIGER, AND SLOTH.

TEOTIHUACAN HAD MANY PALEO INDIAN SITES DATING TO AS EARLY AS 22,000 YEARS AGO. MAMMOTH BO0NS WERE FOUND IN COLORADO DATING 20,000 YEARS AGO; AND A CAMP IN PENNSYLVANIA WAS DATED TO BE CONTINUOUSLY 20,000 TO 200 YEARS AGO.