Re: [Texascavers] Humans reached the Americas 11, 000 years earlier than previously thought, archaeologists discover

2020-07-23 Thread bmorgan994
5:25 PM To: Cavers Texas Subject: [Texascavers] Humans reached the Americas 11, 000 years earlier than previously thought, archaeologists discover https://www.yahoo.com/news/humans-reached-americas-11-000-140807872.html I wonder if this is close to the cave where corn was first discovered

Re: [Texascavers] Humans reached the Americas 11, 000 years earlier than previously thought, archaeologists discover

2020-07-23 Thread PRESTON FORSYTHE
Teosinte was the native plant, that by seed selection using largest seed year by year, hybrization of sorts, etc., speculation my part...today we have corn that in north central Illinois can produce 200 bushels an acre...ask Caveman. This process started in Mexico. Preston Sent from AT Yahoo

Re: [Texascavers] Humans reached the Americas 11, 000 years earlier than previously thought, archaeologists discover

2020-07-23 Thread grubbsi
yes, it has 1 row with about 8-10 kernels From: "John Brooks" To: "texascavers" Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2020 11:38:39 AM Subject: Re: [Texascavers] Humans reached the Americas 11, 000 years earlier than previously thought, archaeologists discover Perhaps thi

Re: [Texascavers] Humans reached the Americas 11, 000 years earlier than previously thought, archaeologists discover

2020-07-23 Thread John Brooks
vers Texas Subject: Re: [Texascavers] Humans reached the Americas 11, 000 years earlier than previously thought, archaeologists discover Right. I recall Hal Jensen and I doing research on the subject. On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 8:53 AM Ron Ralph mailto:ronra...@austin.rr.com>> wrote: Charlie,

Re: [Texascavers] Humans reached the Americas 11, 000 years earlier than previously thought, archaeologists discover

2020-07-23 Thread Charles Loving
wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_MacNeish > > Ron > > *From:* Charles Loving > *Sent:* Thursday, July 23, 2020 8:39 AM > *To:* Cavers Texas > *Subject:* Re: [Texascavers] Humans reached the Americas 11, 000 years > earlier than previously thought, archaeologists discover > > Th

Re: [Texascavers] Humans reached the Americas 11, 000 years earlier than previously thought, archaeologists discover

2020-07-23 Thread Bill Steele
Hi Preston, I may have gone to the same lecture with you in Austin in the mid-1970s. It was by archaeologist Dr. Richard MacNeish, (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_MacNeish ) and the cave site with very early cultivated corn evidence is Coxcatlan Cave in the Tehuacan Valley, Puebla. We

Re: [Texascavers] Humans reached the Americas 11, 000 years earlier than previously thought, archaeologists discover

2020-07-23 Thread Ron Ralph
] Humans reached the Americas 11, 000 years earlier than previously thought, archaeologists discover There were a series of books written on this topic. Five large volumes that I had and then lost in one of my moves. But I think it was on the Teotijuacan(sic) Valley that this happened. I wrote

Re: [Texascavers] Humans reached the Americas 11, 000 years earlier than previously thought, archaeologists discover

2020-07-23 Thread Charles Loving
There were a series of books written on this topic. Five large volumes that I had and then lost in one of my moves. But I think it was on the Teotijuacan(sic) Valley that this happened. I wrote a term paper for Dr, Shindel about corn development long ago. On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 4:25 PM PRESTON

Re: [Texascavers] Humans reached the Americas 11, 000 years earlier than previously thought, archaeologists discover

2020-07-23 Thread Miles Abernathy
Additional information about the cave and discovey can be found here . Miles Abernathy On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 8:29 AM PRESTON FORSYTHE wrote: > See today's WSJ, Science section. > > The discoveries were made in "Chiquihuite Cave,

Re: [Texascavers] Humans reached the Americas 11, 000 years earlier than previously thought, archaeologists discover

2020-07-23 Thread PRESTON FORSYTHE
See today's WSJ, Science section. The discoveries were made in "Chiquihuite Cave, located almost 9,000 ft above sea level, about 400 miles northwest of Mexico City." The points and tools were made from a green limestone. Preston Forsythe, Browder, KY Sent from AT Yahoo Mail on Android On

[Texascavers] Humans reached the Americas 11, 000 years earlier than previously thought, archaeologists discover

2020-07-22 Thread PRESTON FORSYTHE
https://www.yahoo.com/news/humans-reached-americas-11-000-140807872.html I wonder if this is close to the cave where corn was first discovered? We have been to that small museum, southeast of Mexico City. Some will remember attending a visitor professor talk at UT Austin around 1975, on the