The 6500 -year -old fishing group contains pieces of spear and Poomrang launcher, as well as wooden arrows and stone. It was found in a cave in West Texas near the remnants of a small fire, and a pile of well-reserved human waste-evidence of those who protected inside.
Weapons, which have been discovered over the past few years near Marva, a small desert town about 40 miles northwest of the border with Mexico, can be among the oldest almost complete groups of wooden fishing and stone tools in North America, According to archaeologists At the University of Sol Ross State and Kansas University.
The researchers did not publish their full results, but they said that dating indicates that one of the weapons was about 7,000 years old. The researchers say that artifacts can help highlight the complex roads that old humans hunt for their prey and their broken property.
“We have just amazed, because I have never seen these things,” said Brion Schroeder, director of the Big Bend Studies Center at the Government University of Soul Ross and one of the main researchers in the project.
The group, which includes different pieces of weapons, has been discovered, in addition to hiding the folded antelopes that were probably used to sew a bag or clothes, over the past few years in San Esteban Rocchchillter A partially collapsed cave between Marva and Luna, Texas. Dr. Schroeder and his team started for the first time on the site in 2019, where they worked in cooperation with researchers from Kansas University.
Dr. Schroeder said that the players have looted the site for years, making it difficult to find an area that has not been touched. “We quickly discovered that he is really, in fact, in this part of the site,” said Dr. Schroeder. He added: “The reason we were there to find really old things.” “So we continued to go deeper.”
He said that when they found the first pieces of the fishing group. When they continued to drill, more parts of the group were discovered.
Dr. Schroeder said that the number of tools and its location indicates that the cave was likely to be used by fishermen to assess and repair damaged weapons. He added: “They are just a kind of stock, and they expel broken things.”
The oldest element is Atlatl, known as the spear bomber, which researchers described in a 2023 sheets In the Big Bend Studies Magazine.
One of the researchers, Divin Petrigu, an assistant professor of anthropology and an expert in old weapons at the University of Sol Rosset State, said that a part of the discovery is great is well preserved wood, feathers and feathers. He usually said, “All we find around it is stone tools.”
In addition to Atlatl, archaeologists also found part of Boomraang, long wooden tips that may be used to connect toxins to prey, a wooden goddess and stone tips.
“Imagine that all this distance will go on foot every day and find a place on the scene you know about, as you know that you can find a shelter,” said Dr. Petrigo. He added that the fishermen had spent a night or two there, building a fire and working on their equipment.
“It is rare to get this type of ancient people’s perspective,” he said.
Christopher Morgan, professor of anthropology and archeology at Nevada University, Renault, described the results as important, especially given that a few of the cave sites in North America are still with sound deposits. He did not participate in the study, but he worked with Dr. Schroeder.
He said: “The evidence in sweets in terms of close description whether these artifacts are going together or not,” noting that sometimes things can be found from separate time periods. He added, “But so far, I think it looks good.”
Although the era of the elements is impressive, the most interesting thing, as Dr. Morgan, said, is the possibility that he will belong to a single weapons group that has been stored in the cave for thousands of years, and what reveals the behavior of the ancient people.
He said: “This is what this-this type of hunter, who lives 6800 years near the modern border in Texas and Mexico-is what they have carried with them every day.” Dr. Morgan added: “It indicates that they were well equipped with advanced technology. It shows that they were planning.” “Al -Sayyad University – they are just people like you and opaque, and they are very smart.”
James David Kilby, a professor of anthropology at Texas State University and an expert in archaeology, said the fisherman who has not participated in the research. He said: “They somewhat remind us that stone tools are only one of the most complex tool groups.”
Dr. Schroeder said that he and his team still have many analyzes to do it on weapons, as well as on human stools, which can provide information about diet and DNA. He added that they are working with groups of indigenous population to obtain approval before following some of this test. The researchers hope to publish their results completely.
“It makes the past road less abstract,” Dr. Schroeder added. “It is like,” Wow, these people were people. “He pointed to the intelligence of those who lived for thousands of years and their wonderful adaptation to the environment.
He added: “We somewhat discuss all the time as archaeologists.” “Well, this is the evidence.”
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