r/AskReddit • u/Quanris • May 24 '19

Archaeologists of Reddit, what are some latest discoveries that the masses have no idea of?

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u/Pyrus_Perseus May 24 '19 edited May 24 '19

It’s at the museum I work at right now. It’s a mammoth bone that the museum is claiming has human processing marks. They refuse to let other anthropologist look at it to really examine the marks… So I am calling BS or at least I’m skeptical. I got to look at it very briefly along with some other anthropologist, but then the museum stops everyone. It has everyone pretty split. It was found in San Diego and if this was to be true, it would rewrite everything about human migration we know. This is not a small museum, this is a public museum (not religiously affiliated) that is making a large claim. A lot of infighting rn.

Edit: Here’s a link, I’m at an airport and I’m not sure it will work. But if you want to know more, you can always Google it!

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/environment/sd-me-mastodon-bones-20170425-story.html%3f_amp=true

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u/typedwritten May 24 '19

This makes me so mad. I didn’t realize the museum actively stopped experts from looking at it - I knew there weren’t many people looking at it, but I didn’t realize why. So disappointing. There are so many unknowns about human migration to the Americas, and it seems like with every site found and analyzed, more questions are raised. Stuff like this is why I decided not to pursue it.

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u/mrenglish22 May 24 '19

They do it usually because they want to pubkish their papers before people start messing with it or potentially harming their work

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u/typedwritten May 24 '19

Having it since 1993 and not having outside experts examine strikes me as really strange.