B USI NE SS NAME Pleistocene coalition news VOLUME 5, ISSUE 4 JULY-AUGUST 2013 Inside - Challenging the tenets of mainstream scientific agendas - Anthropology, paleontology, biology—many things must be re-assessed PAGE 1 Most well-traveled One thing is certain, three fields of mainstream science have stepped beyond the bounds of normal science by habitually publishing unproven perspectives as though they Pleistocene creature were fact. With this in mind, many fossils, artifacts, and other items will even- Tom Baldwin tually need to be reassessed from a different mindset—an interdisciplinary mindset which, in general, is not taught in modern academia. PAGE 3 Ice Age animals in Page 3: Ice Age animals in Southwest U.S. rock art, Part 3 (It doesn’t matter SW US rock art, Prt 3 what a thousand experts say if they think as one mind colored by a single idea.) Click to read » Ray Urbaniak Page 5: Forgotten heroes of archaeology: George McJunkin (Amateurs have PAGE 4 played some of the most important roles in every science from physics and Member News and astronomy to mathematics and geology. Archaeology is no different. Learn other info about how a black cowboy changed the Early American game.) Click to read » Passing of Mauro Page 6: More on interpretation of animal petroglyphs Click to read » Francaviglia; Bischoff and Howard—Younger Page 7: Calico redux: artifacts or geofacts? (Start critical thinking.) Click to read » Dryas; Collecting rigor Page 10 : Debunking evolutionary propaganda, Part 3 (The whole series is just PAGE 5 the tip of the iceberg.) Click to read » Forgotten heroes Page 13 : Neanderthal-Denisovan-Aboriginal DNA connection (The picture of who of archaeology we are is changing as much now as 150 years ago.) Click to read » Virginia Steen-McIntyre Page 16: Tales of a fossil collector, Part 1 (Where does one find confidence to PAGE 6 challenge the system? This is one person’s story.) Click to read » More on interpreting animal petroglyphs Ed Swanzey PAGE 7 The Pleistocene’s most well-traveled creature Calico redux: arti- facts or geofacts By Tom Baldwin Yet while these megafauna a ‘subduction zone’ formed (a Chris Hardaker were wandering between con- large trench) where the Aus- I just was reading where tinents modern day dogma- tralian plate butted up against PAGE 10 they sequenced the genes tists in the archaeological the Asian continent and community tell us the most started to slide under it. Even Propaganda in col- of a 700,000-year-old horse. Seems they found it widely traveled of the Pleisto- at the peak of the Ice Ages lege textbooks,Prt3 frozen in some permafrost cene’s creatures failed to when sea levels dropped hun- John Feliks make that crossing. Homo dreds of feet, this trench was in the Yukon Territory of Canada. Prehistoric horses erectus (and/or a few of his so deep and wide that it PAGE 13 really got around. They were contemporaries) managed to stayed full of water. It formed Neanderthal- found from Europe to North leave his bones scattered a channel approximately 20 Denisovan DNA America. A lot of other large from Europe to Indonesia, miles wide that was an obsta- from China to South Africa, cle to life crossing from Asia and Australia animals: saber toothed cats, bison, buffalo, camels, from India to England, from to Australia. Vesna Tenodi wolves, mammoth, masto- Siberia to Spain. The first person to note that don, and the list goes on, PAGE 16 As the continent of Australia fresh water fish as well as managed to wander back and has pushed north over the small land animals found on Tales of a Fossil forth across the Bering Sea last millions of years it has islands to either side of the Collector, Prt 1 land bridge called Beringia. managed to maintain a sepa- barrier were different was an They called both Asia and John Feliks rate ecology. This is because North America home. > Cont. on page 2 VOLUME 5, ISSUE 4 PAGE 2 The Pleistocene’s most well-traveled creature (cont.) Englishman named Alfred not until a relatively few Vance Haynes, was con- Russell Wallace. Since he thousand years ago when fronted with one beautiful was the first to notice this, the Paleo-Indians did. In black graver, obviously man the dividing line has come to other words, the Wallace made and found about ten be called the Wallace Line in Line (twenty miles of open feet deep in one of the Mas- his honor. sea) couldn’t stop early man ter Pits at Calico. It was too “The ani- but Beringia did. finely made to be a geofact. Only two large creatures He couldn’t admit the artifact mals men- managed to cross the Wal- I find this difficult to under- was what it obviously was tioned lace Line stand and find myself asking and that it was found where and live a big “WHY?” Then I realize it was because that would in the on ei- it isn’t I who has to answer first turn American archaeology ther side that question. It is the Ar- on its ear. Nor could he ac- para- of it. chaeological Powers That Be. cuse a fellow archaeologist of graph The first They are the naysayers. Leakey’s stature of fraud. was Therefore, they are the ones What was he to do, he was above, ele- who have to show us why as trapped. So he came up with phants the Pleistocene’s most well the claim that the artifact well (Fig. 1), traveled creature, didn’t do must have been accidentally as and the what animals by the thou- kicked into the pit. Kicked Fig. 1. About 500,000 years ago, ele- second, sands were doing. into the pit! None are so blind many phants were the first large animals to Homo as those who will not see. oth- cross the Wallace Line and live on either erectus. In fact, there is ample evi- side of the line. They were followed by dence that Homo erectus did Given Homo erectus’ well- ers, Homo erectus. Both cross over. He left his tools were known penchant for travel accom- at the Calico Early Man Site and the fact that Beringia going back plished the feat about a half- in California’s Mojave Desert was a major highway with all and forth million years ago. And we (and at the Caltrans masto- kinds of large animals cross- are not talking some unlucky don kill site also in Califor- ing back and forth regularly between individual washed out to sea nia). He left them at Valse- Alaska and it is logical to assume that on a tree during a flood. quillo in Mexico. He left them Homo erectus did find his Siberia— Sufficient number of Homo other places too. This is as way to the Americas. Those the land erectus crossed to form vi- should be expected. If he who believe otherwise need able groups or tribes. This was here we should find evi- to come up with reasons why bridge be- took both daring and plan- dence of that presence. coming a not. Oh, and those reasons ning. Evidence is now surfac- should be better than arti- veritable ing that Homo erectus also What should not be expected is to hear scientists scream- facts being kicked into pits. megafauna found his way to Crete in the Mediterranean, an even ing “geofact” when pre- super- greater trip by water. sented with artifacts and tools from Calico, stones TOM BALDWIN is an award-winning highway.” author, educator, and amateur It is a safe bet to say that that if found anywhere in archaeologist living in Utah. He Homo erectus—with his hun- Asia, Europe, or Africa would has also worked as a successful ger for new land—was the be quickly embraced as man newspaper columnist. Baldwin most well traveled creature made. Yet they are forced to has been actively involved with of the Pleistocene. Nothing do just that because they the Friends of Calico else found its way into every already believe that early (maintaining the controver- corner of Asia, Africa, and man did not make the cross- sial Early Man Site in Barstow, California) since the early days Europe. ing and therefore could not when famed anthropologist Louis have made the things that The animals mentioned in Leakey was the site's excavation were found at Valsequillo— Director (Calico is the only site in the first paragraph above, as and are still being found in the Western Hemisphere which well as many others, were and around Calico. They was excavated by Leakey). Bald- going back and forth be- must turn a blind eye on win's recent book, The Evening tween Alaska and Siberia— items that nature could form and the Morning, is an entertain- ing fictional story based on the the land bridge becoming a only in a world where mon- true story of Calico. Apart from veritable megafauna super- keys on typewriters produce highway—yet we are led to being one of the core editors of the works of Shakespeare. Pleistocene Coalition News, Bald- believe by archaeological win has published five prior arti- authorities that early man It may be an apocryphal tale, cles focusing on Calico and early stopped and did not make but I’ve heard it told that one man in the Americas. that same crossing, at least of Calico’s greatest critics, PLEISTOCENE COALITION NEWS VOLUME 5, ISSUE 4 PAGE 3 Ice Age animals in Southwest U.S. rock art, part 3: A few miscellaneous comparisons By Ray Urbaniak Engineer, rock art photographer, researcher and preservationist Editor’s note: This article is condensed “In the same from a much longer submission.