12,940 YEAR OLD Bone Bead Found At MAMMOTH Site In WYOMING

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In this week's ancient history news my headline story is about the discovery of an Ice Age bead in Wyoming that was created by the Clovis culture and is one of the oldest such artefacts found so far in the Americas. I then discuss new radiocarbon dates for wooden plaques from Rapa Nui that are etched with the mysterious Rongorongo script and how DNA data analyses show that Neolithic farmers wiped out the hunter-gatherer population of Denmark.
#ancient #iceage #palaeolithic
✨ IN THIS EPISODE
00:00 Introduction
00:41 Archaeologists discover ancient tubular bone bead in Wyoming
04:46 New radiocarbon dates published on the Rongorongo script
09:30 Research shows Scandinavia’s Neolithic farmers wiped out the hunter-gatherer population
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✨ REFERENCES
Lund University (2024). Scandinavia's first farmers slaughtered the hunter-gatherer population, DNA analysis suggests,’ Phys Org, 12 February. phys.org/news/2024-02-scandin...
Surovell, T.A., Litynski, M.L., Allaun, S.A., Buckley, M., Schoborg, T.A., Govaerts, J.A., O’Brien, M.J., Pelton, S.R., Sanders, P.H., Mackie, M.E. and Kelly, R.L. (2024). Use of hare bone for the manufacture of a Clovis bead. Scientific Reports, 14(1), p.2937.
Ferrara, S., Tassoni, L., Kromer, B., Wacker, L., Friedrich, M., Tonini, F., Lastilla, L., Ravanelli, R. and Talamo, S. (2024). The invention of writing on Rapa Nui (Easter Island). New radiocarbon dates on the Rongorongo script. Scientific Reports, 14(1), p.2794.
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Images and diagrams about the tubular bead, credit: Surovell, T. A., et al., in the paper referenced above.
Images and diagrams about the Rongorongo script, credit: Ferrara, S., et al., in the paper referenced above.
Dataset from DNA research in Denmark, credit: Allentoft, M., E.
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Neolithic tomb in Denmark, credit: Pugilist
Yamnaya migrations, credit: Joshua Jonathan
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Photographic negative of Tablet B, credit: Trocadero Museum
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Woolly mammoths, credit: Mauricio Antón
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Moai at Rano Raraku, credit: TravelingOtter
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Close-up of some of the script on the Small Santiago Tablet
Tablet B, Aruku Kurenga
Petroglyphs

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@MegalithHunter 5 ай бұрын

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@GeneralPadron 4 ай бұрын

Actually, it is only about 4500 years old...

@rehoboth_farm 5 ай бұрын

I was able to partially translate one of the Rapa Nui tablets: eggs, bread, milk, razor blades... Fascinating stuff.

@MegalithHunter 5 ай бұрын

😂

@lakrids-pibe 5 ай бұрын

Just like those old metal grocery lists. Flour. Delicatess. Salt. Soap. Catsup.

@nnonotnow 5 ай бұрын

The writing on the tablet is beautiful. Those characters seem anthropomorphic in some cases. Regardless of the dating of the wood that it was on, it would not seem possible to develop what is seemingly a complex language and just a couple of centuries.

@chrisbricky7331 5 ай бұрын

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@MegalithHunter 5 ай бұрын

So nice of you!

@sharonholdren7588 5 ай бұрын

Not at all what I had expected, but a professional digest of real archaeological news.

@waynesworldofsci-tech 5 ай бұрын

There’s a live stream to follow.

@MegalithHunter 5 ай бұрын

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@MegalithHunter 5 ай бұрын

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@LordDustinDeWynd 5 ай бұрын

Early peoples were interested in bones stuck inside rocks, just like we are today. I purely HATE going to a tourist trap and breaking my string of pearls/beads, especially if I lose a bead or two! 😉🙃

@MegalithHunter 5 ай бұрын

haha!

@californianorma876 5 ай бұрын

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@MegalithHunter 5 ай бұрын

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@frankmitchell3594 5 ай бұрын

It seems reasonable that the early farmers did not want hunter-gathers hunting their livestock or gathering their crops and so treated them a threat.

@nnonotnow 5 ай бұрын

Early farmers were an invasive population that were taking over the hunting grounds of the hunter-gatherers. A recent report from Scandinavia indicates that the agricultural people force the hunter-gatherers out through killing them and taking over their land. Seems like something that has been repeated over the centuries. Quoting from a recent article: Scandinavia's first farmers slaughtered the hunter-gatherer population. Following the arrival of the first farmers in Scandinavia 5,900 years ago, the hunter-gatherer population was wiped out within a few generations, according to a new study from Lund University in Sweden, among others. Feb 8, 2024 Google it

@user-mi7qs3cx2o 5 ай бұрын

And the Hunter-Gatherers saw their hunting grounds being taken over by outsiders who had no right to be there. It was an intrusion. A situation not likely to be seen in a peaceful and positive light.

@vwsadventures3039 5 ай бұрын

Nice bead. Had no idea there were beads!

@sixeses 5 ай бұрын

Thanks Laura.

@LordDustinDeWynd 5 ай бұрын

Great content! Thank you! Waves of migration, peaceful? Not if the colonization of the Americas is anything to go by!

@californianorma876 5 ай бұрын

Culture is important here. And people from Europe were from a different culture than people who were one with Turtle Island. (PRE Amerigo Vespucci) As you may know, they did not treat the world as a product to be used and abused. Many tribes, mine included, understood the world around them to be living and family, and thus respected for themselves.

@lakrids-pibe 5 ай бұрын

We can also learn from America's colonization how important it was that the natives were more vulnerable to infectious diseases. Violent conflicts have probably also been part of Scandinavias prehistory, but it bothers me when people simplify it into sensational headlines that are only about mass murder and violence. On a side note: There are also material evidence that some of the hunter-gatherers possibly went north to present-day Norway.

@zemog1025 2 ай бұрын

@@californianorma876 Humanity has proven vulnerable to desperate times, the survival instinct remains strong, California is not far from a societal breakdown, and Native American History fully supports that observation, people will do what they need to survive.

@storkythepunk 5 ай бұрын

A lot of interesting food for thought, Wyoming must've been on the very edge of the north American ice sheet, and 12,940 years ago would be a couple of hundred years before the big melt started, so it was probably a bit nippy.

@MegalithHunter 5 ай бұрын

Definitely a bit nippy

@fennynough6962 5 ай бұрын

So much for this Ice Glacier Maximum, as being accurate! Time to use the Coldest Times on recent Record. Yes 300,000 years ago, would be a much more accurate Date: [in mine & Scientific opinion].

@storkythepunk 5 ай бұрын

@@fennynough6962 I agree, but I always feel that this Glacial Maximum is a misnomer, I don't think the planet was actually colder, just that the poles were in a different location.

@fennynough6962 5 ай бұрын

@@storkythepunk Actually, Pole reversal happens about every 300,000 years, yet I think we're over due by about 400,000 years or so , lol or cry out loud, if someday soon? Metorific events trigger ice ages, I.M.O.

@TheEudaemonicPlague 5 ай бұрын

If you'd bother checking a map, you'd see that the glaciers didn't reach Wyoming--they barely got into Montana, which is directly north. It wouldn't have been so nippy, hundreds of miles from the nearest glacier. Please ignore fennynough6962--it's just a stupid troll. This troll likes to make scientific claims that are not merely untrue, but outright lies.

@nnonotnow 5 ай бұрын

Amazing discovery

@user-mi7qs3cx2o 5 ай бұрын

Thank you, Laura, for another excellent video. I see myself becoming a lifelong fan of your's 😊

@MegalithHunter 5 ай бұрын

Wow, thank you!

@ajkaajka2512 5 ай бұрын

Thank you. That Rongorongo script is beautiful. If it was found on petroglifs or some rock tablets that can be dated, that would prove that the script predates Europeans coming there. Also, I think, if it was influenced by Europeans, it would look more like our letters. I agree with you that probably only the newer wooden tablets survived. Hopefuly there are still things under the soil waiting to be discovered...

@ichangedmyself4362 4 ай бұрын

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@MegalithHunter 4 ай бұрын

Welcome aboard! 😊

@davidcreager1945 5 ай бұрын

Decorating ourselves wether it's jewelry or body paint or tattoos , must be in an as yet undiscovered piece of human Dna !

@bretthess6376 5 ай бұрын

The diagonal gouges on the bone bead, and the irregular end, look to be the result of chewing by mice. I have seen exactly the same marks left on antler, horn, and bone.

@waynesworldofsci-tech 5 ай бұрын

Wish I could stick for the live, but my body kept me awake all night.

@MegalithHunter 5 ай бұрын

No worries! Keep well.

@theeddorian 5 ай бұрын

The oldest bone beads(?) in the Americas were found in Brazil. A report was published in the Royal Society Proceedings B. They were made from osteoderms of the giant groundsloth. The artifacts came from a site with the earliest component dating to the Late Glacial Maximum, and appears to be somewhat older than the White Sands footprints. The report is titled "Evidence of artefacts made of giant sloth bones in central Brazil around the last glacial maximum" and was published by the Royal Society, 12 July 2023.

@MegalithHunter 5 ай бұрын

I know. I mention it in my video. This bead is referred to as one of the oldest. In fact it’s the oldest except for the Brazil ones. As I say in the video several times.

@garyworokevich2524 5 ай бұрын

A little late to the party. I'm intrigued by the Rongorongo glyphs.

@pencilpauli9442 5 ай бұрын

Fraxinus excelsior is European ash! That's one mighty flight for a winged seed! lol Seems counter intuitive that the ash wood drifted from Europe. The ash may have come from a shipwreck as it was used in the construction of ships, but not sure which part of the ship.

@judewarner1536 5 ай бұрын

I was disappointed that the 13,000 year-old Wyoming bead was assumed to have been based on European artisanal habits more than 10,000 years earlier. Local, independent development seems much more likely. The Rongorongo script is probably (IMO) based, like hieroglyphics, on the beginning sound of an animal or objects name representing a letter or phoneme in the written language. I expect the more recent carvings to be copies of older "documents" or new documents in the old script. That's how things tend to go.

@scottzema3103 5 ай бұрын

If no correspondence can be established between rongorongo and the Polynesian spoken language or modern culture on Easter island, then perhaps the search for at least symbolic meaning of the tablets should maybe be taken to the Marquesa Islands which were the origin of the culture on Rapa Nui and which which is a much bigger territory and have a history of large stone figural carving of similar type. Just looking at the symbols one can almost see stories in the figures, animals and objects, and also apparent counters. Have the tablets been organized by date with respect to the kinds of symbols that appear on the tablets? Can any changes in the historic rongorongo be detected in the kinds of symbols ie perhaps European images that the later pieces have and by comparison perhaps identify the meaning of certain symbols? Has anyone (probably have) used computer technology to assist? These things remind me of the art of Keith Haring! Thanks.

@MegalithHunter 5 ай бұрын

Good points!

@vulpesvulpes5177 5 ай бұрын

Now you tell me this! I could have made a rabbit bone bead necklace for my wife for valentines! Why did I not think of that? Only two more ham steaks and I’ve got the complete set of napkin rings for her for Christmas. I’ll keep an eye peeled for a rabbit. The conflict between farmers and those who “gather” from them is perineal. I’d be surprised if there was no conflict. Fox out

@MegalithHunter 5 ай бұрын

Haha I suppose wearing a rabbit's foot for luck goes back a long way. Maybe not the whole foot, just a part of the metatarsal.

@MegalithHunter 5 ай бұрын

But I suppose 'lucky rabbit metatarsal' doesn't have the same ring to it.

@floydriebe4755 5 ай бұрын

hi, Laura! missed the chat, dagnabit😢 oh well....sssooo, Native Americans made beads, too? i think that goes without saying but, the possible age is what is interesting......and, if it was made by a non-human carnivore, would the ends be that straight? seems to me they would be more jagged....i think it was purposely cut....by human hands....the climate would surely have been chilly but, the last ice sheet ended a few hundred miles north, it didn't extend to this area....at least, that has been the experts opinions as i'm aware of. the ages of the Rapanui writing tablets are also interesting....too bad it's so hard to date the writings on rock......could be much earlier.....the hieroglyphs, for want of a better word, are quite unique.....definitely not directly related to any known script. the possible annihilation of hunter-gatherers by farmers? i suppose....seems like they could have been more or less assimilated but, if it doesn't show in the genes, i guess not.....didn't know farmers were so war-like😮😅 (just ask our Native Americans😢) all in all, an interesting update, my dear. always learn something from your vids......and, i'm always entertained! thanks and ta ta, for now🤓

@MegalithHunter 5 ай бұрын

Thanks Floyd! Yeah the ice sheet and corridor were further north I think.

@floydriebe4755 5 ай бұрын

@@MegalithHunter yes, it only came down to the northern 1/4 or 1/3 of eastern Montana.....further south in the Rockies in western Mt but, that was partly due to the addition of the mountain glaciers. the actual continental ice sheet stayed north.

@catholic3dod790 4 ай бұрын

Do you think ice age will come back?

@deantheot7296 5 ай бұрын

Warning: presentation critique. Hey Laura, as much as I enjoy your content, please ease up on the "read along" to the script. While it may be necessary for accuracy, it's presentation is more like a report and less like a presentation of well-studied research. My personal belief is that Rongorongo script was independent of outside influence. PS, please, open your videos with an introduction. This video did not include a personal introduction which is rather cold and impersonable. This is just a suggestion. Thank you for all your videos, I look forward to your next video.

@fennynough6962 5 ай бұрын

To understand, the Moai, & who created them, does not take a piece of driftwood script; yet the ability; (to know): when they were TOPPLED over, & actually how much Sedimentary Dust has covered over them since then.

@fennynough6962 5 ай бұрын

Academia told us for Eons that Wyoming was under a Glacier Ice Sheet at 12,900 years ago ? I guess they lied! 🤷‍♂️

@californianorma876 5 ай бұрын

Science admits past errors.

@fennynough6962 5 ай бұрын

@@californianorma876 Good one, lol 😂

@TheEudaemonicPlague 5 ай бұрын

I don't believe so...the map I found of the last glacial maximum shows Wyoming entirely clear of glaciers. For that matter, Montana, the state just north of Wyoming, only had the northern edge covered. Glaciers apparently went much further south in Illinois--I live on a glacial morraine. Next time, instead of just saying whatever crap comes to mind, try looking things up. You won't look nearly as stupid. On the other hand, the odds are in favor of you being a mere troll, and not worth wasting time on.

@fennynough6962 5 ай бұрын

@@TheEudaemonicPlague Ha, like looking things up from stupid morans is always the intelligent thing to do. Try actually only looking at facts & scientific evidence, not flat earthlanders maps from the past.