@@flyntcleveland4100 I've sent points from the area into the Texas Archeological institute and they dated them to that period. There was a lot of Comanche in this area in the 16 to 1800s too but most of the artifacts were beginning to be changed due to the trade with the European settlers.
A couple important points: 1st - Anything older than 5,000-5,500 years ago is beyond the veil of history. All we really know for sure happened since somewhere around that time. The oldest calendars in human history are the Jewish, Mayan, Chinese, and Hindi, They run: Jewish 3761BC 5,784 years ago Based on sum of prophets' ages Mayan 3113BC 5,138 years ago Based on reverse interpolation of later events Chinese 2698BC 4,722 years ago Hindi 2691BC 4,715 years ago No other cultures kept as reliable a record of their courses. 2nd - Texas was overwashed by a massive "flood" of water, when the Arctic-Atlantic watercourse that crossed the Great Plains, from northwestern Alberta, to southeastern Colorado, were blocked by the emergence of the Colorado Plateau, and the initial uplift of the Front Range of the Rockies, coupled with the arrival of the southern states chunk of continental debris, including present-day Texas. That water puddled up, then washed over Texas, to bleed off into the Gulf. The state's topography speaks loudly to this sequence of events. 3rd - Humans, like us, have existed for close to 300,000 years. Do you really believe a thousand generations (much less 6,000-10,000) were content to "sit by the river, hunt and graze"? Not the humans I've met, or any I've heard of, anywhere outside Africa, where "the livin' was easy ... Summertime". Humans have far too much "nervous energy", as seen in every day life. 4th - North America was not a "continent", then. It was a loosely-associated group of cratons, and an accretionary plate. Whomever lived on one of the pieces that would be put together with others to create the North America we know, today, would have been living on a different Earth, not meaning "another" Earth, but one vastly different from the one we know. No oceans (or, maybe ONE small one, a nascent Pacific), few mountains (dinosaurs were NOT designed for mountains, or rivers), and lots of "inland seas" (large "lakes"). The events since around the mid-25th Century BC so changed to world, no one alive before would recognize it, and no one alive today would recognize its former appearance.
I agree about the music. Maybe you've lost more listeners than you know because many have just turned it off without saying why. I was about to, when I saw these comments echoing why I was about to leave. It may seem picky to you, but how important is that music? I listen to numerous podcasts with no background music, and it's just fine. I'm very interested in your content, but the music is too annoying. Thanks for listening.
@@betsybarnum8040 I was just starting out, didn't really dial things in yet. I lost the original files so I can't remaster it without the music. Sorry for it. I agree it's not good that's why I stopped using it.
Celestite is a very rare crystal to find in Texas. I was very lucky to randomly have them on my property. Look up the escarpment zone near Austin and see if there's any public land in the zone you could potentially find crystals in that band of land
I have tools and evidence after digging over 70' deep in some areas of my property, the meteorites, flint that has been worked, but also Geopolymer tools and carvings into the giant stone that will the roof of a tiny cave house I am building under one site. Hoping to find evidence under the giant rocks to see what they were growing in there to create the unusual soil/dirt I found as I dig out the cave that once existed before filling with volcanic Ash and layers of iron-rich red clay at the top from the iron oxide blast from the sun that must have struck here long ago. Love your perspective. Let me know if you pass by Salvage, Texas, the last high mound on the San Marcos river before the flood plains all the way to Houston after dropping off this last plateau.
You were walking on top of the sncient remains of the Ouachita Mountain Range that once was joined with the Appalachian Mountain Range that was created when Rodina became part of Pangea. That collision created the faults west of the Balcones Escarpment. The Balcones is a long flexure fault cause by the basement rock to the east drooping down from the weight of miles of sediments that accumulated on top of it. That created a big crack in the ground where the east side tilted toward the gulf eroded faster to reveal the strata west of the crack. Myron Cook has two excellent videos about the creation of the GoM and the coastal plains east of the Balcones. I live up in NE Texas where the gulf first started accumulating layers of salt and sediment. Those layers are responsible for all of our oil and gas fields along with the Smackover Brine Formation that's very rich in lithium and bromine. One small company has had very good results removing the lithium by using membranes so Exxon recently spent $100 million on acquiring mineral rights to mine the brine. The formation extends into NE Texas where two other companies have found even greater concentrations of lithium. These will be low cost operations that may put Thaçher Pass out of business before it gets started.
I'm very lucky to get to do this. When I was looking for a place to put up a cabin I accidentally kicked a rock and looked down and it was an awesome Celestite Crystal just clean sitting there in the woods. 10 years later and ive found thousands of them and Fossils. The area is very unique and yes it's hundreds of acres so it's very peaceful and quiet
I just do not understand why this stuff is at the surface when it is billion years old ? Is it because the trees push it all up or has the ground level been the same for ages?
It's 90 ish million years old. From the Cretaceous when Texas was a shallow ocean that went for thousands of square miles. Ancient faults drove up the sea bed into mountains and over millenia turned the Seabed into Limestone and the mountains eroded into hills. This is the Texas Hill Country. The region has very little topsoil maybe 3 to 10 inches max on average. Then you hit bedrock limestone so nothing on the surface can be buried very deep. Rains and floods every year just keep churning it up to the surface and you can find 6,000 year old Indian tools and crystals. It's pretty wild. Sometimes I find stuff that looks like it's been washed and scrubbed it's so clean
@@AncientAmnesia Thank You lol That was literally the kind of breakdown I wanted of the area but could not Google it as I didn't have enough time,data or inclination to obtain it ..but you done perfect man, great local explanation, the best kind of search engine for geology!! Much appreciated man 🙏🙌✨💯
@@AncientAmnesia I thought the fossil that looks like a word beginning with S I think .. a sponge like creature that created the rock with long circular hollows in it was manmade at first. I am fascinated by the potential of finding truly ancient and almost forgotten tools n' stuff of our ancient man as well as any other type of hominid or other potential extremely ancient completely unknown previous intelligence that could have occupied (for all we know) this great Earth ..that is a huge pipedream of mine 🥲 But for now just the early 1900's is fascinating enough for me .. all rocks, fossils and made objects are my brains natural state of desire to occupy 😅
The reason why it is sitting, there is because it was carried there. ❤ there is a multifaceted complex style of art that goes unrecognized by modern people.
This for some reason took me back to when I was kid and went to APAC and they showed us all the fossils that are in the ground locally. Keep finding more cool stuff!! ❤
If you're on FB go to a geology page group. I'm on many and if you post your rocks there's experts who can identify them pretty easily. I'm more of an amateur enthusiast and know a lot about my region but little about everywhere else
possibly that or possibly natural there are some near me in a group of caves some are natural some are man made with dates between iron age and middle ages the caves used to have housing built along the frontage used by monks in the middle ages them being the last inhabitants
Danny Vendramini neanderthal predation theory. Ever since european scientist discovered europeans have more neanderthal dna than any other race, white supremacist nazi scientists changed neanderthal appearances from a bipedal ape to now look like a white dude or woman.
The video volume is too low. - - - - - - - Those are nice specimens. How do you know that they’re 90 million years old? That would put them in the Turonian Stage of the Late Cretaceous Period. The mean- temperature on the planet's surface at the time, was between 6 and 12 degrees higher than it is today. Where’d you collect them? With accurate, precise information, you might be able to track down the geologic formation they originally came from and find detailed descriptions. The gastropod (snail) resembles “Platyceras,” that I collected in Devonian age rocks, found in the ridges west of where I live. - - - - - - - Something to consider: There are five Ocean Zones. Most marine creatures live in the uppermost “Sunlight Zone,” AKA the “Epipelagic Zone.” That sits upon the Continental Shelf, which makes up only about 8 percent of the entire area covered by oceans. So I would recommend saying something like “the Ocean’s Sunlight Zone” which is a more accurate description then “Ocean” by itself. - - - - - - - “Frozen Sand.” Technically, sand can’t freeze because it contains no water. Over-time, sand and any fossils it might contain, can be compressed into sandstone, a sedimentary rock. More compression eventually turns it into the metamorphic rock, Quartzite. One cannot see individual grains in a quartzite.
Thanks for the detailed response. I know they're from the Cretaceous Period because of the geological history of the specific region. That period roughly spans from 100 to 70 million ybp. So 90 is a median average. I'm fully aware that sand cannot freeze its a phrase I'm using because the specimen literally looks like frozen sand.
Thank you for the rely. I'm a paleontologist for the Natural History Society of Maryland, with a background in historical geology. Part of my gig is education, and I do my best to make sure people are aware of what current research has revealed. I'm actually a rather easy-going person. The reason I sometimes bear down is that there's this misinformation circulating around that's based on opinion and speculation, rather then fact ... more later : ) @AncientAmnesia 2 days ago Thanks for the detailed response. I know they're from the Cretaceous Period because of the geological history of the specific region. That period roughly spans from 100 to 70 million ybp. So 90 is a median average. I'm fully aware that sand cannot freeze its a p @AncientAmnesia 2 days ago Thanks for the detailed response. I know they're from the Cretaceous Period because of the geological history of the specific region. That period roughly spans from 100 to 70 million ybp. So 90 is a median average. I'm fully aware that sand cannot freeze its a peole a@@AncientAmnesia
Dude it was a lucky find while filming. I've looked in that spot a hundred times. Weather and rain moves things around and you find stuff in the same place you've looked just a month back
