Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Cave Men only "Oooga Booga" => Topic started by: Dane on February 24, 2010, 12:03:11 pm
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My wife is very cool, in that she didnt mind my going off and tramping around a rock shelter this past Valentine's Day. The "Rock House" is located near Ware, Massachusetts, and worth visiting. After that, my buddy and I took some time to visit the Amherst College museum of natural history. The place is great, free, and they have stuff worth multiple visits. To me, the high point was the small collection of ancient stone tools they have on display. The Neanderthal tools average about 4" tall. I didn't even ask if I could borrow them, lol.
Dane
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More shots. The teeth are mastadon / mammoth teeth.
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Last shots. Pardon me if I repeated any.
Dane
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wow that looks like a great way to spend a weekend! :)
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It is a really fine little museum. They have some paintings and dioramas showing this area, the Connecticut River Valley, as it appeared during the Jurasic period. Very arid and tropical, which would be nice right now. They also have a great little map of what the area looked like during the last ice age, when Lake Hitchcock existed. Hard to iimagine my lttle town under all that ice.
Dane
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cant believe we hunted mammoths. those things are huge!
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Looks like a great place to visit, Dane. That Levallois flake is cool. I'd like to see all those skeletons in person, and I bet you could make a helluva flintknapping billet out of one of those megaceros antlers. :)
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awesome dane, im gonna hafta stop up there when i swing through. that rock house looks like the leathermans caves we have in thomaston, ct. next time you come down i'll show you where they are .
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How much are mammoth/mastadon teeth worth? just wondering because my grandfather's family has a few from when they dredged out their sandpits in the 60's....if anyone knows let me know
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Great pictures! :o Great Wife! :o......I assume you left her with an ample supply of chocolate, wine, and Harlequin romance novels ?...... ;D Ok, so about that Soap Stone Quarry 8)......and those spooks...... :o
Wayne
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I have a Celtic holy ground nearby named Cat Stones; your pictures of these shelter rocks very much reminds me of those!
Great museum pictures, too!
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The soapstone quarry will happen again sometime this spring. If the spooks allow it, lol.
My wife isn't much for romance type stuff, and we stopped giving each other gifts for any holiday years ago, including our birthdays.
Dane
Great pictures! :o Great Wife! :o......I assume you left her with an ample supply of chocolate, wine, and Harlequin romance novels ?...... ;D Ok, so about that Soap Stone Quarry 8)......and those spooks...... :o
Wayne
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That would be great, Jamie. I plan to come to the NEPSG again this year.
Frank, thanks. Funny how sites like these are often so similar. Maybe something about how cultures share certain things across the world.
Dane
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Dane, Frank, it is that Spook thing, I'm telling ya! ;) ::) That's how they had similar stuff! ::) Oooooowheeeeoooo, use the rocks for shelter old toothless one.....Ooooowheeeooooo...... ;D Hmpf, wind crazy, me build cracker style, with walk out basement., maybe ranch style...... 8)
Wayne
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Wayne, are you a member of the sarcastic tribe that dwells by the big river? :)
I kind of meant a lot of other things, like the technologies that traveled from continent to contient, bows for instance, atlatls, etc. Styles of dress, styles of art, all that good stuff. Trade goods and spread of ideas before these here computers and telephones and stuff. Of course, a cave is a cave is a cave. Ooga booga.
Dane
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Nah, just being silly. ::) I agree, there are some very interesting things in history, that happened at about the same time of each other, yet thousands of miles away from each other. Kon Tiki was an example of theory on that. They say that man has only been in the us for so long etc. But they can't explain a human skull that was found encased in lime stone here in Fla. .......or flint tools, atlatl points, etc. also encased in limestone. It is definitely interesting at the least. ;)
Wayne
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A while back, I was surfing the net, looking for information on the colonization of the Americas. I think it was your fault Dane, because you were looking for Neolithic/Archaeic clothing ideas, and that got me started. I found some interesting stuff. The established theory was that the Americas were colonized from Asia in three unrelated waves, represented by South American, North American, and Arctic Natives, with the first wave being about 12,000 years ago. In contrast, genetic marker studies of those three groups indicate that they are all closely related and have been separated from Asian populations for over 20,000 years, and that North America and the Arctic were colonized from the south, with some Arctic natives passing back into Siberia from Alaska. Another item I found was information on Kennebec Man, the remains of an 8000 year old "Caucasoid" man from Oregon, complete with a healed over piece of stone spearpoint lodged in his hip. His discovery opened a can of worms over the possibility of Paleolithic Europeans colonizing America. One Archeologist came forward with the claim that 10000 years ago, that shape of skull was common throughout the world and the regional variations in skull shape we see today arose during the neolithic and later, when people settled down. If that is true, it indicates to me that paleolithic people spread far and fast, taking their technology with them, before they had much chance to develop the regional variations we like to refer to as Races. Things like skin pigmentation would have been among the first to change, in response to low light levels, for Vitamin D production, but changes in bone structure took longer to occur. I think we see so many similarities around the world in Stone Age technology, because early humans spread across the globe so quickly. JMHO Jude
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A good scorce of info is America BC by Berry Fell. Also there is
Much info saying the ancients traveled around the world much.