Refleksi:Apakah dengan ditemukan tulang-tulang onta berumur 10.000 tahun di 
Arizona membuktikan bahwa penyebar agama dari Arab sudah berada di Amerika jauh 
sebelum Columbus?:-)

http://www.gulfnews.com/world/U.S.A/10121583.html

Published: 29/04/2007 12:00 AM (UAE)


10,000-year-old camel bones found in Arizona 
AP
 

Phoenix, Arizona: Workers digging at the future site of a Wal-Mart store in 
suburban Mesa have unearthed the bones of a prehistoric camel that is estimated 
to be about 10,000 years old.

Arizona State University (ASU) geology museum curator Brad Archer hurried out 
to the site on Friday when he got the news that the owner of a nursery was 
carefully excavating bones found at the bottom of a hole being dug for a new 
ornamental citrus tree.

"There's no question that this is a camel; these creatures walked the land here 
until about 8,000 years ago, when the same event that wiped out a great deal of 
mammal life took place," Archer told The Arizona Republic.

Wal-Mart officials and Greenfield Citrus Nursery owner John Babiarz have 
already agreed the bones will go directly on display at ASU. 

Archer said some of them may be placed on display very soon, but most will take 
several months "to get sorted out and stabilised".

"In my 15 years at ASU doing this work I can think of six or seven times when 
finds this important have been made. This is the first camel. Others have been 
horses, once a mammoth on Happy Valley Road. This sort of thing is extremely 
rare," Archer said

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