Posted on Oct 25, 2018
Archaeologists uncover oldest weapons ever found in North America, and they might rewrite history...
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I wonder how to determine these were hunting implements and not weapons purposed for fighting other people. Can you imagine taking on a mammoth? I mean, actually doing that? Makes me leery of that theory. (I did that without planning.) Unless they found mammoth remains nearby, I don't know what to make of the mammoth idea. But one could use a spear against elk. And one could chase an elk. People can outlast an elk over a long run. People could wound an elk and then follow it. But if you try to wound a mammoth - wow, "Hey anybody seen Ogg? He did what? How'd that work out for him? Yeah, he shoulda seen that coming."
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How sheltered a life we can lead and never know it> That dig is in my home state, and more, just down the road. I have ridden past it many times and never knew history was being discovered as I rode blindly past to someplace I thought was important.
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SSG Carlos Madden
Pretty neat. Kind of wild when you think about all that in your back yard and never realizing it.
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SSG Carlos Madden
Not nearly as old but equally cool... I know someone who lives in East Cambridge, MA which directly faces the old part of Boston on the opposite side of the Charles River. He was poking around in his back yard and dug up a British bayonet. It was obviously very rusted so not much else is known, but before the British marched to Lexington and Concord, they landed in East Cambridge while the expeditionary force was rowed across the river. In my mind the story is some British private lost a piece of gear while on mission and before he could find it in the dark, was ordered to move out and march the nine miles to Lexington the whole time hoping the Sgt Maj wouldn't find out. A tale as old as time.
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