Evaluating the claim of 37ky old archaeological material at the Hartley Mammoth locality in New Mexico

Rowe et al. (2022) recently argue that the pattern of breakage and degradation of bone at the Hartley Mammoth locality in northern New Mexico is evidence of human activity 37ky ago. If true, this would make the Hartley locality the oldest solidly dated archaeological site in the Americas by a factor more than two. The…

Hopewell airburst event news : Tankersley et al. retreat from comet to asteroid hypothesis

Coming at it from an astrophysical rather than an archaeological perspective, Neuhäuser and Neuhäuser (2022) published a brief but effective critique of Tankersley et al.’s (2022a) paper on the possible destruction of the archaeological Hopewell Culture by a comet airburst about 1600 years ago. Tankersley et al.’s (2022b) have a response, both in Nature Scientific…