Ep. 268: Clovis Points and Man’s Best Friend

The MeatEater Podcast

MeatEater

Sports, Wilderness

4.9 • 37.5K Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2021

⏱️ 132 minutes

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Summary

Steven Rinella talks with David J. Meltzer, Ryan Callaghan, Spencer Neuharth, Corinne Schneider, and Phil Taylor.

Topics discussed: Making sure that your local humane society is not The Humane Society of the United States; Jim H. encouraging hunters to be true to the message of conservation and favor wolf recovery even if it costs them a few extra elk tags; Covid vaccines for mink and great apes; Spencer saves bird lives; spotting an arrowhead by the side of the road as a bus driver holding the door open for a kid; delving deeper into the Folsom Site; a beautiful theory killed by a horrible fact; what to make of 34,000 bone scraps smaller than the size of your fingernail; how it’d be cool if you bought a book that came with an attached Folsom point; tribal vs. human and culture vs. genetics; the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act; ancient peoples being successful at moving far distances; dogs as the first animal that humans ever domesticated; how there's dog DNA in wolves but no wolf DNA in dogs; anthropology classes as a resume builder; where you can find all of David's fascinating books; and more.

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0:00.0	This is the meat eater podcast coming at you shirtless severely vote bitten in my case
0:14.8	underwear list.
0:15.8	You can't predict anything.
0:20.4	Presented by first light go farther stay longer.
0:31.4	Join today by my favorite ever podcast guest.
0:35.3	Now I say I throw that around not liberally by throw it around but this is true.
0:39.9	Professor David Meltzer who just did were you in this studio when you just did your online
0:44.7	class?
0:45.7	I did.
0:46.7	I did.
0:47.7	In this studio prior to the recording about clovus.
0:52.9	Perfect timing wasn't it?
0:53.9	Guy I wish I'd have been here early.
0:56.0	Well you know when you show up late for class Steve this is the price you pay.
1:00.8	You missed the good stuff.
1:02.8	In fact it was the best lecture I ever gave.
1:04.7	You were feeling it.
1:05.7	Oh no I was rolling and where the hell were you?
1:08.9	I'm looking out the window thinking we're Steve Pemet.
1:11.6	He's supposed to be here.
1:12.6	We were bringing it we have a guy engineer accepted our challenge.
1:17.8	We wanted to get a light.
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