Ancient Handprints

Les Tate (ltate@hiwaay.net)
Sat, 06 Apr 1996 13:57:40 -0600

Recently a subscriber asked about archeologist Scott MacNeish and the
Fort Bliss archaeological find indicating human habitation about
30-50,000 years ago. I found the following information regarding
MacNeish. The website from which this was clipped is listed at the end
of this message. The Mammoth Trumpet quarterly publication provides a
great deal of valuable information about NAGPRA and archaeology that may
be of interest to subscribers of this list.

Les Tate

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...they may bring to mind the intriguing clay impressions of hand prints
discovered in Pendejo Cave near Orogrande, N.M. by Richard S. MacNeish
and his Andover Foundation for Archaeological Research team ("Pre-Clovis
Human Prints Found in
Clay," MT 7:1, and "Pendejo Investigation Continuing," MT 7:4
[Unfortunately the website does not contain these issues of Mammoth
Trumpet]). Those impressions in baked clay revealed characteristic
ridges with intervening grooves complete with imprints of sweat glands.
The prints were not immediately accepted as positive proof that ancient
humans had lived in Pendejo Cave, however, because the clay impressions
dated to 28,000 years ago, well before the commonly accepted time for
human occupation of the Americas.

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