Bluefish Caves - Citizendia

Bluefish Caves is an archaeological site in the Yukon Territory of Canada from which a specimen of allegedly human-worked mammoth bone has been radiocarbon dated to 28,000 years before present (y. Yukon (ˈjuːkɒn is the westernmost and smallest of Canada's three territories. A mammoth is any Species of the Extinct Genus Mammuthus. These Proboscideans are members of the elephant family and Carbon-14, 14C, or radiocarbon, is a Radioactive isotope of Carbon discovered on February 27, 1940, by b. p. ).

The initial find of a mammoth bone spear point was made by archaeologist Jacques Cinq-Mars in 1978-79[1], but not radiocarbon dated and published until the early 1990s due to lack of funding. As the date of 28,000 y. b. p. obtained directly contradicts the Clovis-First theory which dominated New World archaeology until recent years, the research of Cinq-Mars was largely ignored by the archeological establishment, and he was unable to obtain funding for follow-up research until 2008[2]. There are several popular models of migration to the New World proposed by the anthropological community The New World is one of the names used for the non-Eurasian/non-African parts of the Earth specifically the Americas and Australia.

Recently another team has discovered allegedly human-worked mammoth bone flakes in the Bluefish Caves area, radiocarbon dated to an even earlier period of 40,000 y. b. p. [3]

Despite a growing acceptance in the scientific community of sites dated somewhat earlier than Clovis, such as Monte Verde in Chile at 14,500 y. Monte Verde is an Archaeological site in south-central Chile, which has been dated to 14500 years before present Chile, officially the Republic of Chile ( Spanish:) is a country in South America occupying a long and narrow Coastal strip wedged between the b. p, evidence such as that from the Bluefish Caves area or the Topper site in South Carolina indicating much more ancient dates remains radically controversial and unaccepted by mainstream archaeology. Topper is an archaeological site located along the Savannah River in Allendale County South Carolina in the United States. South Carolina ( is a state in the southern region ( Deep South) of the United States of America.

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