Prehistoric Treasures -- or TOTAL BUNK? The Unbelievable Story of Barstow's Calico Early Man Site
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
- Welcome to Wonderhussy Adventure #716
Date of adventure: 4/5/23
Exploring the controversial and weirdly fascinating Early Man Site outside Barstow, which was closed for many years...but is now open again, although in a state of total disrepair.
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Bar NONE the BEST story teller on You Tube. Sarah your recall is just amazing. You don't tell a story like you researched it. You tell it like you lived it.
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💯 you said that perfectly!
Another Wonderhussy instant classic. Very well presented.
I so agree! I go to sites and make sh!t up because i don't do the research but i do tell viewers im full of it lol 😂 Maybe ill watch her videos before i go the same sites
@@dennisalanvidsI've been to a lot of the sites WH has been to. But I already knew the history on most of them. I've discovered a few through her videos and have managed to find them with a lot of research and some clues from her videos.
I was involved with the excavation of the Calico Early Man site in the early 1960’s. I was tasked with surface collection in the immediate area. I found a boulder with flaked chips that outlined two footprints in front of it. There were thousands of verified choppers, scrapers and biface hand axes picked up and now archived at the San Bernardino County Museum. The site was located on an ancient alluvial fan at one time radiating from the Calico Mountains. As chert like material had floated out over thousands of years, Simpson and Leakey supposed it to be ongoing from more ancient times, below the surface. Excavation with dental picks in the cemented conglomerate was more difficult than just “sweeping dirt”. The trouble was how to date the lower layers. Finally, a ring of rocks determined to be a fire ring was uncovered at the present depth. Analysis of three volcanic rocks (presumably fired at 2000° ?) in the ring gave a magnetic reading pointing North at the time of 100,000 years BP. This putative dating infers the era of the Late Cenozoic Ice Age. This has all been disputed but the fact remains that early man did use the site for the manufacture of hand tools.
Wowee! Thanks for sharing Robert!
Wow, impressive data. Thank you.
Are the books open for anyone qualified to review all the data? This controversy has been going on for many decades. It would be could to see a modern review of it. I think most archs and paleos have big big doubts about this site. I have not idea the magnetic reading. Are those particular rocks house at the San Bernardino County Museum in Redlands?
Thank you sir.
Confirmation bias.
Classic Wonderhussy at her very best. You may not be an archaeologist in the purest sense but you are the world's first ever cultural archaeologist! No one synthesizes what is found at a site quite like Miss Sarah and her simple explanations couples with her vivid imagination and her social commentary. God bless you little lady...
PS. My wife wants a Wonderhussy archeologists hat!
As a 60 yr. old Barstow native, I remember seeing the word "Folly" in the local paper regarding the Early Man Site, in many articles and remarks. It was a big deal as it was blowing-up...a very Barstow story...
Have you ever banged Wonder Crusty?
Loved it, ❤️ Barstow is not forgotten now 😮😂 LoL
@Jonathan Davis; Wonderhussy is real pretty and smart.
Maybe she would go out with you sometime. ask her!
Well done cutie.
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I came across a Geo Stash one time. There was a native american arrow point lying there. I thought it was real. I was impressed that it was un-molested. I left it there. I guess I should be proud of my restraint, miss placed as it was. You can buy all the arrow points you want now days for about .25cents. I think they come from China.
Yay!! WH is rockin' those beautiful braids again! Love 'em!!
Frickin great story that could only be told by the one and only Wonderhussy. Loved it.
Verboten archaeology was never so much fun! The story of first man in the Americas is constantly changing, and the truth will no doubt surprise us all. Thank you for taking me along on this one, Sarah Jane!
Of course Wonder, You've made the Middle-of-Nowhere very interesting.
I love your explorer look! Sometime, back in the 90's a contractor found a Woolly Mammoth in Otay Mesa, near the San Diego - Mexico border. I got to see the site and it is guesstimated to be around 10,000 BC when those creatures roamed the SW. The Kumeyaay Indians were largely nomads, probably the earliest civilized people in the West that I know of. The Natural History Museum in LA or San Diego has more info!
Love your story telling. Informative, entertaining, hilarious, and beautiful. Your show is fantastic.
Loving the "Indiana Sarah" look! This should be your main look while exploring places.....
She doesn't have a main anything.
@@georgecopeland5426 BS, what about here trucker cap and USA sunglasses? I would say that is in fact here main look. You just like finding fault with and telling other people they are wrong about everything, I guess? Such a stoic and magnanimous human you are, better than all of the rest of us for sure.....lol!
I was stationed at Camp Irwin, back in the early sixties. I never knew about the Calico dig, until you pointed it out. I totally admire your perseverance researching that stuff. I've been a dedicated follower of yours for a long minute now. Keep up the good work girl, I love it.
Wonderhussy can even make a pile of rocks entertaining!
My father dragged us three boys downtown to hear a presentation by some guy named Leaky in 1969 who talked about bones he found in Africa. At that time in my youth I could care less about his talk. It was only many years later after his death that I learned that Louis Leaky was a world renowned paleontologist and that I had attended one of his lectures. I had no idea about the Calico man chapter in his life. Thank you Sarah for this adventure. There are many other archeological sites in the west that I would love for you to visit and tell us about.
Lewis Leakey was also a paleoanthropolgist and was quite famous in the 50's and 60's. He was instrumental in getting Dian Fossey to study and research gorillas. He was also a compatriot of Sir Richard Pankhurst whom I had the pleasure of meeting along with his lively wife for afternoon tea at his home in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, back in 2000. It was a wonderful
day. It should be mentioned his mother, Sylvia Pankhurst, was one of the most influential suffragette for women's rights in England at the beginning of 1900's.
But I won't bore you with that. I too used to drive up and down I-15 alot and remember seeing that sign and always wanted to stop there. Maybe in my next life...lol
WoW! Magnificent Post! 🩶
Odd you forgot to mention that he was also the one who was responsible for Jane Goodall’s research with chimpanzees.
I visited that site back in the '80s. At the time there was a building with a large artifact (geofact) display and a full-time curator.
White Sands National Monument has 30,000 year old footprints. Oh wonder wander hus. This is a total game changer. Love the work you do.
Flint knappers flake away raw flint (aka chert) to make a flint tool.
1 sided work piece is called Uniface, where they flake only 1 side to make the tool, like scrapers.
2 sided work piece is called Biface,where they flake both sides to make the tool, like spear point or arrowhead.
10:24 I had found a 3 inch Bi/ face spear point estimated at 12,000 years near the top of Mount Ashland in Oregon near the California border .
The work put into the piece by hand was incredible I had to look at it with a magnifying glass .
Who made it didn't have one .
12:03 would be great to compare it to the photo ones .
Great archaeology class today thank you .
I love any kind of history, this was fun, thanks
Here in Europe, the act of humans shaping stone tools was/is called knapping. Archaeologically, our most abundant stone of choice for tools was flint, but other stone could also be knapped (shaped) into tools and weapons. Chert, and obsidian were common in other areas.
Oddly that's what it is called in the Americas too!
Everything starting in Barstow sounds right to me.
When I play your videos, see your face and hear your voice, I find it brings a smile to my face and a happy feeling. TY.
I haven't been there since the early 1990's I met Ruth Simpson she had a very cool old dodge power wagon and since my ex was a service writer for the dodge jeep dealership in Redlands at the time I got to meet her she was the person who first showed my ex and I the " Triangles" out in that area that are early native intelagos look up triangles on Google maps
This is why I spend so much time in California - there are natural wonders almost everywhere you look...! I used to work for the feds as a natural resource manager and also had a Power Wagon to drive, what a gig 😁
If I’m not mistaken it’s exceedingly rare to find actual human remains from Paleolithic prehistoric times. 99% of stuff found is cultural items, not human bits and pieces. Early Denisovans in Eurasia were discovered and came to be known based entirely on one tooth.
It is impossible to have a human community with no trash pile.
@@georgecopeland5426 True enough, but Nature will tend to consume most organic material completely, given enough time. If a small settlement is "stone age" in technology, their tools and artifacts will be mostly composed of organics. You go back more than a few thousand years, and it all decays to dust, generally speaking. If you're lucky, a super-hard shard like a tooth may survive, and of course any worked stone tools... but that's about it.
I walked 6 miles today out to a place called the deep hole myakka park fl.. Chuck full of gators . But it was too far of a walk . I barely made it back the last mile was hard . Im too old now for that . Im now happy just watching you do the hiking. Thanks wonder hussy.
Awesome video. They should get Phil Harding from England and he definitely could tell you. He us an expert on flint knapping and stone tools
This is one of the best adventures yet. That area just needs water.
Sarah, you are brilliant and hilarious, thank you.
Thx Sarah for the tour of this site...I've driven past it on I 15 a million times and have never visited it...Great video
That dig would have been on the shores of Mannix Lake now just desert.
W.H.,
Fossilized human footprints have been found at White Sands, which may predate the ones from the Bering land Bridge.
"The latest research shows that humans have been living in North America and Tularosa Basin for at least 23,000 years. It was previously thought that humans arrived in North America closer to 13,500 - 16,000 years ago."
You tell this story so well!
Cheers,
Rik
Leaky was really Lucky Leaky. I think he found the earliest human known. Annabelle or something. But to get that goofy over something as crazy as 100K yr. old human sites. Right up there with the Martian Canals.
Very well said.
Check out the Dagget museum someday. But they are only opened on Saturdays.
Bentonite was used by Townson Brown as a high K factor material in his high capacitance antigravity experiments.
If Wonderhussy ever starts to levitate she can blame it on her face mask : )
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It was absolutely wonderful meeting you and your sister April 15 in Tecopa let’s do it again interesting place I got some souvenir rocks☮️🌵❤️
So stoked you did this location! Was very curious about it.
The long channels are the material they removed from each pit, in case they ran into something while digging for artifacts. Very cool video, dude
Your awesome , you just don't stop!!!! I was their 2 years ago.Great stuff.Take notes on these old places on that pole,That will give you endless more to cover!!!
Wonderhussy...Another Great Story! Love your new sunglasses. A big improvement over the red, white and blue ones.
It is part of the archeologist look, and I am sorry, what precisely is wrong with the USA glasses?
Good job Sarah, I really enjoyed your narration. Did did a good job on your homework, thanks that was a good one
This is a good one! Well done Sarah👍
Well done, Sarah!
"a big old nothing burger" - never uttered a more accurate statement about Barstow. Great town to drive through.
Well researched and well done.
Hey I live in Barstow! Check out sawtooth canyon, afton canyon, and rainbow basin! Nearby landmarks that you’d appreciate.
I'm not sure but I think she's been to Rainbow Basin. I lived in Barstow back in the 70's. Graduated from Barstow High in '74 back when they were The Riffians.
You are so funny, entertaining and intelligent! I believe you missed your calling; never too late to pursue a science degree young lady! I really enjoyed this video; I’m a trained geologist/paleontologist with a career in criminology, go figure, archaeology was my first interest.
You “rock”!
Get it you rock coming from a geologist
No, Bert! Not the geology jokes! 🤣
I don't believe she missed her calling. I believe she is living it. No one tells a story like Sarah Jane.
You should write a novel about an archeologist who solves prehistoric murders.
@Big_Tex YES!! Figure out how to get clues out of the water inside a Geode!
It's fascinating the way those things have liquid inside
This is going to be a good one for me been wondering about that place sense Huell Howser was there back when with a man named short-fused thanks wonderhussy
Entertaining and educational. I never knew this sight existed. I drove that stretch of I15 a 100 times or more. I lived in Vegas 30yrs
Leakey's folly, we studied this in 1978 in a class in archeology I took. I had found a stone tool on Long Island in my grandmother's yard in 1972 that was dated by style to about. 10,000 years ago in a known European style. This artifact was in dispute ( probably still is) but does have many attributes that indicate a human work of stone. It seemed to be a hide scraper or an edged pounder to separate plant fibers for textile use.
I had huge respect for Dr. Leakey but this was a folly. His wife was also a very accomplished archaeologist. His family ( offspring) have proven more of his early man theories but have also disproved a very few of his findings including Calico.
Quite the interesting story, even if debunked. Well told.
Thanks for all your hard work and research to bring these stories to light.
That outfit with the khaki colors really bring out your natural glow.
And yes, men do enjoy women ❤️🙂
This is a very interesting video! Thanks for posting.
Great job analyzing the facts around this site. Very enjoyable, I live in the Victor Valley and have seen the early man site sign on the 15 a bunch of times.
I love it when you do this type history videos. I always wondered what happened to that place and always look over that way when driving by on i15. I dug there as a volunteer with a junior high school club for a weekend, it was a big deal back then. The dig site was only half that deep then. We camped in tents down where you parked. At dusk tarantula spiders came out and where everywhere. 🕷🕷
Greetings WH. Regardless of Calico's truth I remind myself that civilizations have come and gone. Earth has washed itself over more than a few times. Our existence and current educated theories are of just the most recent instance. Like yourself I enjoy the Mojave but I know its had human history well before today's best educated theories limit us with.
Food for thought from a big fan 😊
That was really interesting recent history WH! The "sharpening " of the arrowheads is called flaking.
She doesn't mean to rhyme, but she does it every time.
You rhymed! LOL!
Another hidden Jem in the desert 😊 thank you again Serah
Excellent edutainment. You’re the best. ❤
You gotta remember it used to be a lovely green jungle next to a huge lake with a great climate...
Nonsense. Jungle in North America?
@@georgecopeland5426 In the Paleocene epoch, soon after the extinction of the dinosaurs (65 mya), most of North America was covered with temperate evergreen and tropical rainforests. There was little regional variation. The warm climates promoted humid forests with strong Asian affinities
@@Winstonrodney6989 Ah, the Paleocene epoch. Perhaps you missed the part about this archeological site being excavated for evidence of human habitation in the last 100k years. Please enlighten me how facts about the Paleocene epoch help with this analysis???
@@georgecopeland5426 I’m just replying to the fact that you said jungles in North America were nonsense. That is what you said, right?
@@Winstonrodney6989 200m years ago, most of the western North American continent was covered by an inland sea. Put on your golashas kids!
Wow Sarah, lots of cool information you tell us about. You look great in this video, ponytails hat 💞 Awesome video, was cool to watch
I visited the site in the mid 2000’s. I can see the main building is gone. The caretaker that was onsite had some interesting stories, including one about finding an abandoned B-17 bomber out on a nearby dry lake bed in the early 50’s. At the time he said they found another site where they found some fish bones and shells they thought might be evidence of prehistoric man.
Todays landscape is alot different..for example Crater Lake is a collapsed caldera and used to be a 12,000ft strato volcano, only 7000 years ago.
There is a difference between "fake" and "misidentified". Scientific knowledge and understanding is always evolving.
Thank you for sharing this story Sarah.
at about 13:53 that rock is not just like it was naturally formed. That is agate material and there are pronounced conical fracture lines on it, some force was necessary to produce those lines that happen when the rock fractures. When we used to hunt petrified wood you would find all kinds of those rocks with such evidence of fracture. Some no doubt were from other rock hounds pounding on a rock to chip it and some were quite likely due to Native Americans also pounding the rocks to obtain material for tools, arrowheads etc. I have found a few native American sites in the western US while roaming the land in search of rocks and it is common to find agate rich areas with lots of fractured rocks and piles of pieces where rough material was being harvested.
There are lots of sites with agate type material in the Mojave. There is lots of float with concoidal fractures, but unless there is obvious human alteration to the piece, such as pressure flaking or fluting, etc. it is just a fractured rock.
Woohoo, I love Topeka Jane episode. Lots prosspectulating going on.
Well that guy was a character! Great video. Thanks
Did you take any videos of the volunteer firemen's festival? I hope you did and will post something.
Was your old friend Larry there too? Haven't seen him for a few weeks.
Hi Sarah. This is the first time I've seen your hair done in plaits. Also that 'Geofact' (13.40) you picked up looks like good quality chert. That sort of stone. as well as obsidian (volcanic glass) breaks into what's call conchoidal fractures.
Thanks Sarah, informative 😎
“There’s nobody here but us ravens!!”
Very cool story, Wonderhussy! :-)
What a beautiful area and a beautiful bit of history you told. Too bad some human bones were not found because think of all the history books that would have had to be rewritten. It must have been a nice wet or dry area..
Great story and another mystery explained. I grew up in Ohio where Leaky was "based" at the Cleveland Musuem of Natural History where he was famous for Lucy a 3.2 million missing link in 1974. I always thought that it was odd that Leaky was based there. Now it makes sense, no one else would take the reputational risk. That's also about the time I was in college and went the medical route but I did take a few archeology electives and it was obvious where all the hot undergraduates were. WH always impressive to tackle artifact geofact debate and the angle of flaking. Good to have you WH back.
Lucy is a faked up monkey. 🙊
Make 'no bones' about it, its Wonder Hussy Wednesday and another adventure featuring prehistoric bones !!
I just drove back to Las Vegas from San Diego hours ago, and thought I would go check it out next week. Thanks for saving me the gas money.
Those serrated edges in more modern stone tools were produced by the 'Pressure Flaking' method and those tools are produced by highly advanced tool makers! There is little doubt that early man used stone tools which were naturally occurring and just happened to fit ones' need for the particular shape as they were found. Working the stone didn't start until much later.
There is no evidence of habitation, none.
@@georgecopeland5426 Everett is talking about tool making in general not if this site was inhabited or not.
@@Winstonrodney6989 His comments lean on small facts that do not address the most important issue, did humans live in North America 100k years ago? No amount of "pressure flaking"nonsense is going to change that.
@@georgecopeland5426 There was 'No evidence' of habitation at Olduvai Gorge either!
Love you Wonderhussy; big fan. Stay Safe and keep on trucking. Very educational; thanks for your expertise.
I wish I could get a PHD in Wonderhussy. It seems I'm studying her top to bottom daily.
You did good on this one. I found the whole story just fascinating. You can really tell a tale. More like this please.
Excellent report, and all true. I had jus recently been reading about this site. They sure put a lot of effort into it.
I got to tour it in the 70s with my mom. She sent letters back and forth with Dr. Leaky
You dish Barstow but not the town near by…,Yermo?, or just Calico
Yet another great adventure and “story time “ loved it keep ‘em coming! ❤
I belong to the British Archeological Association. Love this.
I love how you always get to the nitty-gritty of the situations! Like Leaky being a horn-dog besides a famed scientist. Those things can be mutually exclusive!
Very interesting, as arte Johnson,would say
There definitely is a technique to knapping stones to make tools, but Mother Nature has her own ideas. She used a lot of glaciers, Mud slides and flash floods to bust up rock. And I sure can understand how modern man could eventually learn to tell the difference twixt artifacts and geofacts Anyway, I really enjoyed this, thanks a heap, Lass...and much love to you, Sarah Jane.
Well WH, that was an amazing video.
I am 80 years old but still eager to learn as much as I can about this planet we live on.
You are wonderful at what you do. Thank you.
I love you so much. You even have appropriate costumes that are the best. You have officially replaced Huell Howser.
I'll bet that was never in her business plan! Huell had been a Marine and probably had to clean up his language a lot for TV like Sarah says she had to do for YT. Her costumes are way better though aren't they.
It's crazy how history has been made. They only use the things that fit in our timeline. If it didn't fit, it was discredited. The narrative is starting to change, but now we need to go back and re-think all finds that didn't fit. One of the biggest blunders of man! Good content pixie chic!
I can't afford cable , so I watch your videos, very informative and no commercials , keep up the good work
Google Acheulean point or hand axe, also Oldowan hand axe.
I'm literally sitting on the oldest mountain range in the world, about 30 km from the cradle of humankind, humans come from Africa.
Kights Templar went through that place, lot's of history in this site
Lol x2
“Knights Templar” 😂😂😂
This is wonderful!!! NO SHORTS!!! Love it keep up the great work 👍👍
Flint knapping is the making of arrow heads
I visited this site in 1973 when Ruth Simpson gave us a tour. They have dug it much deeper
Fun video.. new subscriber.. we’re on our way to Vegas now to vlog and live stream for the weekend. We just passed Barstow and I’m glad this fun video popped up…
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Unrelated to acheaology, but related to that area. When I was a little kid (1965 ish) my Dad took my brother and I out hiking in that general area. We found a huge boulder, with an old campsite under it. THere was a fire ring, old metal pots/pans and more than one human skeleton. I also remember that trip since I got to carry a hatchet and Dad used the hatchet to kill a snake.
The process of creating a stone arrow or axe head is called "knapping." Interesting site!!