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   Message 57,094 of 57,854   
   Garry Denke to The Old Man   
   Re: Chief Wahoo of the Caddo Nation (50,   
   29 Jan 21 06:22:41   
   
   From: garrydenke@gmail.com   
      
   On Wednesday, January 20, 2021 at 8:42:37 AM UTC-6, The Old Man wrote:   
   > On Wednesday, January 20, 2021 at 4:33:27 AM UTC-5, Garry Denke wrote:    
   > > Chief Wahoo of the Caddo Nation (50,000 BC) skeleton and tools   
   > >   
   > > Where was the first Human found in Americas and which Tribe?    
   > > Great Mystery, Wakȟáŋ Tȟáŋka, Great Spirit   
   > >   
   > > Geologists and Geophysicists drilling for petroleum in Nacogdoches, Texas   
   spudded into a 50,000 B.C. skeleton dubbed    
   > > 'Chief Wahoo of the Caddo Nation' embedded in the Queen City Sand (Eocene)   
   Formation outcrop, and forged iron and    
   > > bronze tools (agricultural and foraging instruments), being over 50,000   
   years old. Humans were in the Americas roughly    
   > > 52,000 years ago, the researchers, company man, rig tool-pusher and three   
   tour drillers, roughnecks and derrick men said.   
   >   
   > I'm taking a chance here pointing this out but you were off by a factor of   
   100.   
   > The Eocene was 50,000,000 years ago, not 50,000.   
      
   Earth is 4.543 billion years old. You and I live on earth. So our ages are off   
   by billions.   
   The skeleton is  52,000 years (dating) so the tools are 52,000 years old.   
       
   > Okay, that said, why didn't this make the news headlines when it happened?   
      
   It did make newsgroup and usenet news headlines.   
   See the news headlines and links.   
      
   > > In other studies, Spelunkers and Archaeologists analyzed a remote cave in   
   northwestern Mexico containing human-made    
   > > stone tools that are up to 31,500 years old, according to dating models.   
   This pushed back dates for human dispersal into    
   > > North America to as early as 33,000 years ago, the researchers said.   
   Archaeologists took already-published dates from 42    
   > > archaeological sites in North America and Beringia and plugged them into   
   their model that analyzed human dispersal.   
      
   > If they had bronze tools 52,000 years ago,   
   > why did they go back to stone almost 20,000 years later?   
      
   How would I know, we're just drillers.   
      
   > BTW, most all of Beringia is under water,   
   > where were these tools found?   
      
   Nacogdoches County   
      
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