BUSINESSBUSINESS NAMENAME BUSINESSBUSINESS NAMENAME Pleistocene coalition news VOLUME 9, ISSUE 3 MAY-JUNE 2017 Inside - Challenging the tenets of mainstream scientific a g e n d a s - P A G E 2 Thoughts on early Cerutti Mastodon Site special issue man (Re: Cerutti Site) PROS, CONS, AND UNPUBLISHED FACTS Virginia Steen-McIntyre We received many P A G E 3 passionate referrals to the latest masto- The mastodon as food don announcement in in ancient Mexico— the journal Nature . Revisiting PCN #6, Most readers imme- July-Aug 2010: diately recognized Virginia Steen-McIntyre where they knew this P A G E 4 site from—Pleistocene Coalition News (cited in The “new” New 11 articles the past seven World (Cerutti Mas- years) even though the todon section from name change in honor of The First American long-time California con- (2007)—Updated tract paleontologist, Rich- Chris Hardaker ard Cerutti—colleague of PC founding mem- PAGE 7 ber, California archae- Member news and ologist Chris Hardaker— was confusing to some. other information Both PCN readers and Ken Johnston, Vir- mainstream readers Figure from Cerutti (Caltrans) Mastodon Site’s ginia Steen-McIntyre , 1995 “Final Report” as it appeared in PC found- have commented on the John Feliks ing member Virginia Steen-McIntyre’s exposé, non-citation of relevant sources in the Nature P A G E 8 PCN #3, Jan-Feb 2010 . PCN #3 was the first announcement w/figures of the site since its report. In this issue we The Pleistocene discovery “18 years” prior (same issue as provide some strong version of a multi- our exposé of Ardi in the journal Science ). opinions on Cerutti Mas- use tool Virginia and colleagues agreed not to todon publications ranging discuss the site until the excavators made the from excitement whatever Tom Baldwin “exciting discovery” public; it never happened. the shortcomings and P A G E 1 0 Of the nine, some are ill, and three are deceased; Hardaker’s psychology that’s what a 25-yr suppression can do. Later, in behind suppression to The levee breaks PCN #7 (Sept-Oct 2010), founding member Chris documenting the presence Calico Early Man Site Hardaker gave his first of many insider lessons David Campbell of PC between the sup- on how honest paleontologists such as Richard Cerutti Mastodon Site pression and publication of PAGE 12 Cerutti and archaeologists both are cattle-prodded by the American anthropology community: “First the site. We see the CM • Oral tradition and American research is a high-voltage high-stakes publication as success in • beyond arena where the ruling paradigmers can exact our founding mission to nasty epithets against challengers, blasting their help bring suppressed Ray Urbaniak credibility to kingdom come. ...Don’t expect any information to the public. P A G E 1 4 changed attitudes. Not about Calico, not Valse- quillo, not National City/Caltrans (California, 300k. The mastodon as food in ancient Mexico Cerutti Mastodon See Steen-McIntyre 2010)...It took the main- By Virginia Steen-McIntyre, PhD , “Parallel Timeline”— stream experts a full twenty years to go look at a The story you have site in Chile… Twenty years!” Volcanic ash specialist; PCN article reprint; Full article on p. 3 [“Thoughts on early man” article p. 2 ] not heard, Pts 1-2 John Feliks “A total of the bones of extinct animals, cles with abun- P A G E 2 0 fifteen arti- primarily mastodon.…[dated] dant evidence Neighboring sites: facts and greater than 280,000 years.” ignored by flakes of predisposed Cerutti benefits by –VSM on the El Horno Mastodon Site, indisputably and competitive not distancing Calico Mexico. PCN #6, July-August 2010. human work- researchers John Feliks manship were recovered , On page 3 we continue our skipping normal citations while eleven in direct association with reprints of selected PCN arti- promoting individual sites. VOLUME 9, ISSUE 3 P A G E 2 Thoughts on early man By Virginia Steen-McIntyre, PhD Volcanic ash specialist Most of you will have heard No. Steve knew about “Then, being of the Cerutti/Caltrans Hueyatlaco and the other mastodon site in southern older sites down by the so many California by now. Steve Valsequillo Reservoir, years later Holen and his group reported state of Puebla, Mexico. with no on it in a Nature Sites two to three times Letter recently. as old as Cerutti/Caltrans change February 14 2010: Dated at ca 130k. and first reported in Quater- in the An excellent article nary Research in 1981. My [Caltrans] article is there site’s that covers several Steve and I corresponded [in the Jan-Feb 2010 PCN status bases. An official from 2008 through January newsletter.]. A colleague e- we re- breakthrough that 2013 regarding early man in mailed me only after I had demolishes the old the New World, including the printed finished the piece that you Clovis First mental Valsequillo sites and Cerutti/ had been quietly working on the arti- barrier for good. Caltrans. Then he wrote he the Caltrans material for over cle in Reported worldwide. was leaving the Denver mu- a year. I had forgotten. Note seum, husband Dave died that I did not include the au- our Sort of a bitter- suddenly, and I fell and thors' names and affiliation. Jan-Feb sweet time for me. We re- broke my arm and ended up Ditto for that piece in the last ported on the site way back in 2017 issue, in a nursing home.. Haven’t issue, on Solorzano’s classic the Jan-Feb 2010 issue of this PCN #45, as heard from him since.. H. erectus skull fragment from newsletter, PCN #3, In their the Guadalajara area. No Revisiting own words: Caltrans Site . For the record, I’ve copied sense embarrassing folk. As I PCN#3 Then, being so many years below parts of early emails wrote my friend, we are pres- later with no change in the sent to Steve Holen when we (Jan-Feb ently tumbling over a major site’s status we reprinted the were corresponding: 2010), “In paradigm cliff, and ALL of us article in our Jan-Feb 2017 have said or done dumb their own issue, PCN #45, as Revisiting December 31, 2009: things before our thinking was words,” PCN #3 (Jan-Feb 2010), “In I've been re-reading the changed! [So true! VSM 5/17] with addi- their own words,” with addi- Caltrans open-file report tional fig- tional figure , just before their that includes information public announcement. It was VIRGINIA S TEEN -MCINTYRE , PhD, is ure , just for a mastodon butcher- then called the Caltrans site. ing site in the San Diego a volcanic ash specialist; found- ing member of the Pleistocene before area (1995), age roughly Why the bitter taste? No men- Coalition; and copy editor, au- their public tion of Hueyatlaco, even as an 300,000 years U-series on thor, and scientific consultant announce- acknowledged controversial tusk, C14 dates infinite). for Pleistocene Coalition News . site. Hueyatlaco is officially Bones had been moved She began her lifelong associa- ment.” tion with the Hueyatlaco early ignored, again. They start off around and modified, associ- man site in Mexico in 1966. Her in their abstract listing the ated with a few large cobbles and stone flakes in a fine- story of suppression—now well- criteria proposed early sites known in the science commu- grained stream matrix (had are required to meet for ac- nity—was first brought to public ceptance: “(1) archaeological to have been brought in.) attention in Michael Cremo’s and evidence is found in a clearly According to a note attached Richard Thompson’s classic defined and undisturbed geo- to the report by our mur- tome, Forbidden Archeology , which was followed by a central logic context; (2) age is deter- dered colleague, the late appearance in the NBC special, mined by reliable radiometric Charles Repenning, the stone flakes could be fit to- Mysterious Origins of Man in dating; (3) multiple lines of 1996, hosted by Charlton Heston. gether to form small boul- evidence from interdisciplinary The program was aired twice on studies provide consistent ders. They were using the NBC with mainstream scientists results; (4) unquestionable bipolar flaking technique, attempting to block it. artefacts are found in primary placing a boulder on an anvil and bashing the opposite end All of Virginia’s articles in PCN context.” Hueyatlaco has met can be accessed directly at the with another cobble to shat- all of them. Then they write, following link: “The CM site is, to our knowl- ter it into a bunch of flakes, http:// edge, the oldest in situ , well- then finding “expedient flakes” to use as tools. www.pleistocenecoalition.com/ documented archaeological #virginia_steen_mcintyre site in North America...” > Cont. on page 12 PLEISTOCENE COALITION NEWS VOLUME 9, ISSUE 3 P A G E 3 Revisiting PCN #6 (July-August 2010) In their own words ... The mastodon as food in ancient Mexico By Virginia Steen-McIntyre, PhD Volcanic ash specialist Did paleofamilies enjoy than 280,000 years. 2 References an occasional mastodon Evidence from the 70s 1. Irwin- bar-b-cue in ancient Mex- Williams, C., ico? Evidence In 1978, Professor Juan 1962, Pre- “A total says yes; estab- Armenta Camacho reported liminary 3 Report on the of fif- lishment says no. on his Tetela 1 specimen, Investigations an intricately carved frag- teen Evidence from in the Region ment of mastodon pelvis of the Valse- arti- the 60s that included a clear repre- quillo Reser- voir, Report facts In her 1962 report sentation of a double- on Archaeo- to INAH (Instituto tusked mastodon, probably logical Inves- and Nacionál de Antro- Ryncotherium tlascalae, tigations in flakes pología e Historia), 1 whose remains have been the Region of archaeologist Cyn- discovered in the area Fig.1.