SRT25 - Day 5
Summer 2025 Road Trip
Thursday, April 10, 2025
Bones: That’s one big kitty. And he doesn’t look friendly so I’m going to wait in the truck.
Our first stop today is at the Blackwater Draw Museum. It has one of the better displays of Clovis point arrowheads in New Mexico and the southwest.
https://www.bwdarchaeology.com/
Clovis Point arrowheads are one of those turning points in American archaeology. Before the discovery of Clovis Points, archaeologists believed that the native inhabitants migrated from Siberia (in eastern Russia) to the Americas 2,000 to 3,000 years before the Europeans arrived in the late 1400’s.
Then in 1929 the discovery of a Clovis Point arrowhead embedded in a scapula (shoulder bone) of a prehistoric bison (Bison antiquus) that went extinct around 10,000 years ago. Everything changed. Here was undeniable evidence that humans were living and hunting in the Americas for at least the last 10,000 years.
As technology has evolved we have been able to learn more about these individuals. Through genetic research scientists have determined that the humans that came to America are most closely genetically related to humans from the Balkan Peninsula in several migrations starting as early as 30,000 years ago.
https://www.nps.gov/bela/learn/historyculture/other-migration-theories.htm
Our next stop is in the Texas panhandle.
Bones: The people around here really need to learn how to park.
If you’re ever driving I-40 near Amarillo Texas you should really see this unusual attraction. It's free and you can walk up and touch Cadillacs (aka..artwork). In fact they encourage visitors to demonstrate their artistic abilities by spray painting the Cadillacs.
https://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/2220
Spent the night in Guymon, OK