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Archaeological the Most Inspiring Stories Later BUSINESSBUSINESS NAMENAME BUSINESSBUSINESS NAMENAME Pleistocene coalition news VOLUME 8, ISSUE 4 JULY-AUGUST 2016 Inside - Challenging the tenets of mainstream scientific a g e n d a s - P A G E 2 Engraved stone found in New World glacial paleosol Jeffrey Goodman P A G E 5 Member news and Special 3-part feature A 1.84 mya modern human finger bone is other information A comprehensive update being sold to the public as “not” Homo sapiens. Virginia Steen-McIntyre, on Dr. Jeffrey Goodman’s This is via science doublespeak: “These re- Terry Bradford, Bon- Flagstaff Stone and its U.S. children should follow sults lead to the conclusion that OH 86 repre- nye Matthews, Ray recently-completed the lead of 4th-grader Sydney sents a hominin...whose closest form affini- Smoot and fight for their rights ties are to modern H. sapiens. However, the Urbaniak, John Feliks electron microprobe dating results as well as against corrupted education. geological age of OH 86 obviously precludes its P A G E 6 details on how the arti- Corrupted education is increasing assignment to H. sapiens.” Are we reading 16,000-yr old arti- fact was censored for in the U.S. being spearheaded by straight science here? (see Dullum p. 16). facts, Gault, Texas 30 years—incl. by the institutions like AAAS, NRC, and Tom Baldwin Smithsonian Institution NSTA. Pressure groups are gain- (see Goodman p. 2). ing a foothold for controlling in P A G E 7 stages the psychology of chil- Children stand up dren via underhanded programs for their rights such as Common Core and the John Feliks Next Generation Science Stan- dards whereby science religion Arthur Posnansky P A G E 8 taught as fact is interwoven into Big Tobacco and the believed that saber- normal science. Children need toothed cats were science community critical thinking skills before being depicted at the ancient The qualities of John Feliks subjected to NGSS K–12 or city of Tiwanaku. They Paleolithic art do they will have no fortitude to lived in the region P A G E 9 not follow simple-to- A nostalgic return later question—and the above until c. 10,000 years organizations know this. Groups complex mainstream to Calico ago—within range of exploiting schools need to be expectations. For What the science com- dating for the site Tom Baldwin exposed. Readers are asking how instance, sophisticated munity can learn from (see Truman, p. 13). P A G E 1 1 can we get actionable fraud out animal paintings such Big Tobacco Public fraud as found in the caves Possible Pleisto- of the U.S. classroom? (p. 7). by powerful organizations of Spain and France cene-age artifact results in loss to millions were followed by sim- from Phoenix, AZ of people. However, due ple geometric motifs Ken Johnston to their extreme wealth and childlike drawings such organizations can by cultures tens of P A G E 1 2 be hard to fight. One of thousands of years Tom Baldwin—PCN Archaeological the most inspiring stories later. Contrary to the editor and long-time objectivity? on challenging powers books, this is more worker at Calico Early John Feliks abusing public trust is evidence that human Man Site since the that of Dr. Jeffrey Wigand. P A G E 1 3 intelligence does not days of Site Director 2016 marks the 20th The controversial increase through time. Dr. Louis Leakey— Anniversary of Wigand’s 40,000 year-old rope- (see Tenodi p. 19). provides an important legacy of Arthur 60 Minutes CBS interview making tool from Hohle Fels update on what has Posnansky: Part 2 revealing the tobacco Cave, Germany, joins the happened to the site David Truman industry as knowingly growing list of profound in- (see Baldwin p. 9). P A G E 1 6 making and keeping ventions, creative works, and other products and observa- 1.84 mya modern people addicted. Similar to the science commu- tions proving human bone sold nity, Big Tobacco’s tech- that Paleolithic as “not” H. sapiens niques involved withhold- people were Dr. Curtis Runnels Richard Dullum ing evidence and market- just as intelli- (MA, PhD), Professor P A G E 1 8 ing to kids. Are science gent as us— of Archaeology at Debunking Evo- CEOs prepared to stand contrary to mainstream Boston U., and ama- dogma. The amazing tool is Prop, Part 19: Links before Congress like BT? teur archaeologist, Ken Fiction—Two new Increasing control over contemporaneous with Stanton discover what novels by PC authors: John Feliks schools means it’s time to “Venus” figurines and bone it means to bring The SealEaters 20,000 P A G E 1 9 find out. Photo courtesy flutes. Images courtesy of the unexpected evidence BC Bonnye Matthews From Stone Age to of Jeffrey Wigand and discoverer, Prof. Nicholas to the dogmatically- The Shaman and the Space Age, Part 2 Smoke-Free Kids Inc. Conard, University of Tübin- fixated mainstream Cult of Ogham Ray (see Feliks, p. 8). gen (see Bradford p. 5). (see Johnston p. 11) Urbaniak (p. 6). Vesna Tenodi VOLUME 8, ISSUE 4 P A G E 2 Engraved stone found in New world glacial paleosol The Flagstaff Stone offers profound information on the age and intellect of early man in the Americas, Part 1 By Jeffrey Goodman , PhD, archaeologist, geologist Eds. Note: The figures in this Clovis-First Model, which has I found 23 feet deep in a test series adhere to the numbering the First Americans entering shaft in Flagstaff, Arizona “A grow- in Dr. Goodman’s paper. They the New World across the Ber- conducted by Dr. Julien Allaz were selected out by Dr. Good- ing num- ing Land Bridge that emerged using the electron micro- man from the originals in Dr. 1 Allaz’s 10-figure re- about 14,000 years ago. The probe (EMP) at the Depart- port. The figures used theory of the Clovis-First ment of Geosciences at the are 1–3, 6, and 10 . Model requires extremely rapid University of Colorado, pro- changes on a number of fronts vides solid scientific evidence within just a few centuries. that the Flagstaff Stone is an In the Sept-Oct After the sea level dropped artifact that was engraved 2014 issue of and the Bering Land Bridge during glacial times long PCN , I wrote, “One emerged between Siberia and before the Bering Bridge cannot be a little bit Alaska, it is as if a whistle became available. Dr. Allaz’s pregnant. Either one was blown and Clovis sites EMP study supports the obser- is pregnant or one is The Flagstaff Stone and engravings. suddenly spread across North vations and conclusions of not.” Man was in the America in less than a few the three previous petro- Americas before centuries. In this same pe- graphic studies of the stone ber of re- the most recent ice ages or he riod, Paleo-Indian sites also by geologists at three differ- searchers was not. Putting aside the aca- suddenly spread across South ent universities. The stated demic “establishment” models … are con- America. Is this a coincidence? goal of Dr. Allaz’s study was to that are based on absent evi- Further, in this same short determine if the stone showed tradicting dence, if man was in the Ameri- period, myriad very diverse any signs of alteration, and the estab- cas during glacial times, then the cultures developed, with determine if this alteration is lishment’s artifacts he left behind should diverse physical characteris- older or younger compared not only tell us that he was refusal to tics, and genetic variations. to the grooves. Dr. Allaz’s here, but how intelligent he was. Years ago as an anthropology took two thin sections from grad student I used the Flagstaff Stone for his to quip about Clovis study. The extremely high man surviving the ice resolution and spectral identi- sheets that covered fication abilities of the electron Alaska and Canada microprobe identified the signs after crossing the of alteration of the stone from Bering Land Bridge weathering and showed that and then “racing they were younger than the down to Rio in Brazil grooves, in a way the optical to get warm.” To microscopes used in the previ- defend their interpre- ous studies could not. In other tation of the peopling words, the grooves were made of the New World, before weathering began to Fig. 1. Locations of cuts for preparation of two petrographic thin proponents of this significantly alter the stone. sections of the Flagstaff Stone and subsequent electron microprobe “Clovis-First” model The electron microprobe pro- study by Dr. Julien Allaz (see text on the following page). The study point out that there focused on the side of the stone with the more distinctive grooves. duced images to document The goal was to determine if the sample showed any signs of altera- are no sites with indis- this. The Flagstaff Stone now tion and, if so, whether older or younger than the engravings. putable artifacts that stands in opposition to pro- are clearly older than ponents of the "Clovis-First" Clovis. Proponents of this model who say that there are Fortunately, a growing num- look at and “Clovis-First” model have been no sites with indisputable arti- ber of researchers who have fairly extremely critical of pre- facts from sites that are clearly no allegiance to preconceived Clovis site contenders, and an older than Clovis. Just as Carl evaluate models of early man in the archeologist can literally put Sagan said, “the specimen is the New World are contradicting his or her career in jeopardy always right,” the Flagstaff the establishment’s refusal mounting to try to excavate or research Stone is an artifact that can to look at and fairly evaluate evidence a pre-Clovis or a glacial site.
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