Forbidden Archeology: The Hidden History of the Human Race by Michael A. Cremo & Richard L. Thompson

Author:Michael A. Cremo & Richard L. Thompson [Cremo, Michael A. & Thompson, Richard L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, azw3
Tags: Fringe Science, Gnostic Dementia, U.S.A., Anthropology, Amazon.com, Retail, Archaeology
ISBN: 9780892132942
Amazon: 0892132949
Goodreads: 88473
Publisher: Torchlight Publishing
Published: 1992-12-31T15:00:00+00:00

5.5 Neolithic Tools From The Tertiary Auriferous Gravels Of California

In 1849, gold was discovered in the gravels of ancient riverbeds on the slopes of the Sierra Nevada Mountains in central California, drawing hordes of rowdy adventurers to places like Brandy City, Last Chance, Lost Camp, You Bet, and Poker Flat. At first, solitary miners panned for flakes and nuggets in the gravels that had found their way into the present stream beds. But soon gold-mining companies brought more extensive resources into play, some sinking shafts into mountainsides, following the gravel deposits wherever they led, while others washed the auriferous (gold-bearing) gravels from hillsides with high pressure jets of water.

Occasionally, the miners would find stone artifacts, and, more rarely, human fossils (Section 6.2.6). Altogether, miners found hundreds of stone implements—mortars, pestles, platters, grinders, and so forth. Many of the specimens found their way into the collection of Mr. C. D. Voy, a part-time employee of the California Geological Survey. Voy’s collection eventually came into the possession of the University of California, and the most significant artifacts were reported to the scientific community by J. D. Whitney, then the state geologist of California.

The finds occurred in three situations: (1) in surface deposits of gravel; (2) in gravels washed from hillsides by hydraulic mining; and (3) in underground deposits of gravel reached by mine shafts and tunnels. The artifacts from surface deposits and hydraulic mining were of doubtful age, but the artifacts from deep mine shafts and tunnels could be more securely dated because the gold-bearing gravels lay underneath thick layers of volcanic material.

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