Cave of Sandia

The cave of Sandia is localized on the mountainous solid mass of Sandia, very close to the town of Albuquerque to the New Mexico.

General presentation

She was excavated by the team of Frank Hibben of the university of New Mexico in the years 1936 - 1940. Frank Hibben is regarded as the large specialist in this cave, and published as of 1937 of the scientific reports/ratios which sometimes raised polemics at some because of the 25.000 years dating to 30.000 years evoked about the artefacts, bones and stratigraphic levels of the place.

The polemic ended in the years 1980 when was updated others archaeological discoveries at the United States, in Mexico, in Brazil and Chile, bringing new answers with datings even older.

Bones of animals reveal that the men of this time, who lived in the cave of Sandia, drove out the Mammouth and the Tigre with teeth of saber.

New assumption and news polemize

In 1975, Virginia Steen-McIntyre, graduate from a Doctorate of research of the university of Idaho, archeologist and professeure of the University of Washington, learned the existence from artefacts (worked objects) discovered under a layer of stalagmite. The analysis of Dating to uranium-thorium and the pollinic analysis of a stalagmitic sequence of the isotopic stage 5, gave an age of the tools of… 250.000 years!

The dates obtained with the analysis of the radiocarbon 14 (30.000 years) and those obtained with the analysis of uranium (250.000 years) differ seriously. Certain specialists express doubts when with the reliability of these new results and evoke the assumption that the results obtained with the analysis with uranium can overestimate the datings obtained.

Bonds

http://www.geocities.com/sandiaman2002/Sandia_Man_Caves.html
http://www.abqjournal.com/venue/travel/sandiaman.htm
http://www.ramtops.co.uk/sandia.html
http://www.ele.net/sandia_cave/elephant.htm
http://www.afn.org/~ghi/hhhrchap.html

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