Dan Flores is a writer and historian specializing in the cultural and environmental study of the American West. His most recent book is “Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America.”
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This site is 400,000 years old.
America is a brand new place. History dates to the time Europeans got here in the 1600s.
The fluted idea is a distinctive North American invention.
They may have succumb to genetic diversity issues.
The Clovis people ended up all the way down into South America.
The Joe Rogan Experience.
What happened with the Folsom story is that there was a flash flood on a river called the Dry Cimarron River in August of 1908.
And in the aftermath of that flash flood, this African-American cowboy named Charles McJunkin is out riding fence for one of the local ranchers, seeing what he's going to have to repair.
And as he's riding along, his horse suddenly pitches up and its hooves slide in the mud right to the edge of this freshly cut about 30-foot chasm in the slope that he's riding.
And when he leans out of his saddle and looks down into this cut, what he sees are bones of a gigantic size that he's never seen before.
I mean, this is a guy who he had been on the buffalo hunting plains back in the 1870s.
So he had seen buffalo butchered.
He knew what bones from big animals look like.
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