Great New Year Resolutions - Part Two - Portland Oregon nature

Part one explained why Prehistoric humans did not need exercise; but we do today.

Our prehistoric human bodies demand it!

Cover photo again is that mythical prehistoric red elephant painting in Eastern Oregon. Oregon once had ancestors of the Elephant – can you imagine?

Part one examined the nature of human’s need for exercise following a New Year’s Resolution and this sequel will give us a clearer picture of what Oregon was like 10,000 years ago. So you can use it as a Mission imagines running or walking through your world long ago for creative daily variety.

The prehistoric Clovis people used to run alongside rivers and streams like we do today!

However, some of us are really more introspective and soul searchers; so this website below shows how these insightful people should find their exercise vision from their past.

Mine Your Past for
Exercise Motivation

http://www.confident-vision-living.com/exercise-motivation.html

If you've ever done physical activity, you had some past exercise motivation.

But these days, sometimes we need an extra push to get started with exercise. Perhaps our energy is lower some days, we're mentally fatigued, or we're having a harder time mustering up the faith that we will stick with it this time.

But we have a secret weapon.

YOU!

You've lived some life already and have learned a lot of things. You know yourself in ways I can only guess and that is a VERY powerful resource to draw upon! A great tool that you can use to help you get moving and taking those daily actions to reach your dreams.

Give some serious thought to the following questions to see what you can glean about what worked (and what didn't) for you in the past.

Pay special attention to your environment and the support you may have surrounded yourself with back then….

Look to take the things that worked best for you and evaluate if they might be good for you now, what is different, or what may work better. Most importantly, give thought to what you want and on keeping your eyes on your vision….

Did you play any sports? Dance? Go to nightclubs? Jog? Take walks? Hike? Have a physically demanding job?

What did you like about the activities and why did you keep doing it? (What gave you past exercise motivation back then?)

Why did you eventually stop those physical activities?...

What fitness and health postives can you see in your past that you are not currently doing now? If you don't want to do them again exactly, what would you choose to do instead?... Even if your life history isn't helpful to you in terms of positive past exercise motivation ideas, notice what did NOT work and remember to steer clear of those people, situations, attitudes, and environments this time. We're not here to rehash the old days, but to pick and choose what you can from it to see what may help you today. You're smarter, wiser, and more aware now, so consider yourself a miner looking for gold.”

This article also simply looks for some universal truth or vision outside myself to captivate your mind while exercising.

The good chance of finding something personally rewarding get me outside exercise. Can you imagine this writer’s delight finding something significant for the world during meaningful outdoor exercise?

Rock Art Research 2012 -Volume 29, Number 2 by retired professor EKKEHART MALOTKI.

“In RAR 28(2): 143–152, Henry Wallace and I reported a spectacular discovery of two apparent Columbian mammoth petroglyphs at the extensive Upper Sand

Island site along the San Juan River corridor near the town of Bluff in south-eastern Utah. The discovery is remarkable in that it offers the first bona fide pictorial evidence for the co-existence of Palaeoamericans and extinct mega fauna in the rock art of North America, indeed, the entire Western Hemisphere.

In addition to pachyderms, over thirty taxa of North American terrestrial mega mammals disappeared at the end of the Ice Age around 11 000 bp (Martin and Steadman 1999), including horse, camel, sabre-toothed cat, short-faced bear, lion, dire wolf, giant beaver and giant peccary. Probably none of these animals possesses more diagnostic features than mammoths and mastodons whose tusks and trunks make for unambiguous identification in graphic renditions.

Both of these features are clearly visible in mammoth 1 (M1) and mammoth 2 (M2) at the Upper Sand Island location (Malotki and Wallace 2011: Figs 7 and 10).

M1, furthermore, displays at the tip of its ‘trunk’ an astounding and not popularly known anatomic detail of Pleistocene proboscideans, called ‘fingers’ by mammalogists. Additionally, both beasts show the characteristic topknot that identifies the mammoth species as Mammuthus columbi…. the reaction of the rock art community to our findings has been overwhelmingly positive. After all, the proboscidean portrayals speak for themselves and cannot be pontificated away. This was clearly expressed by Jean Clottes in his comments on one of

them when he wrote: ‘If it had been discovered in a French or Spanish cave, nobody would have questioned its identification’ (pers. comm. 29 September 2011).”

Moreover, the simple carved in rock, Bluff Utah mammoth art has now evolved into an even greater debate of the origin of the original mammoth hunters.

EKKEHART MALOTKI wrote, “While a final verdict on these enigmatic elements will require a great deal more research, their idiosyncratic appearance is unique among the tens of thousands of petroglyphs along the San Juan or, for that matter, at any other rock art site in the American West I am familiar with, and sets them apart as a likely cluster of rock art unparalleled anywhere else in North America.”

Walking today is a lost art today. Many of us tune-out listening to earphones, pop pills or waste value-added time hassling over and over about issues at work while doing prehistoric modes of transportation for our body’s sake. Take a “recess or OUT” and you may find other solutions drop in your brain box.

Maybe more important, you are obviously ignoring your world while walking and even the brilliant Einstein found solution while “listening to the universe” while walking. It would be cool to be walking and discover a temporal window between 13 000 and 11 000 calendar years BP (BEFORE PRESENT)!

“In light of the impossibility to apply direct chronometry to the palaeo-imagery at the site, a temporal window between 13 000 and 11 000 calendar years BP (BEFORE PRESENT) was suggested, based on both archaeological and paleontological factors (Malotki and Wallace 2011: 151).

The older end of this age span was linked to the presence of a known Clovis site some 12 km west- southwest of the Upper Sand Island location. Named after the eponymous limestone that occurs in the region, the Lime Ridge site was officially recorded in 1985 by William Davis, owner of AbajoArchaeology in the town of Bluff.

Among the fourteen definitively recognized Clovis locations in the American Southwest (Vance 2011: 5), Lime Ridge is the only one lacking mega faunal remains. It consists entirely of flaked stone debitage and artifacts. a clear indication that it had served as a campsite, not a kill site (Vance 2011: 26).”

Limestone often has nodules of spear-point making radiolarian chert or flint!

“Among the surficial material were two distinct bi-fluted bases with lateral edge grinding clearly identifiable as Clovis spear point fragments ….as well as other non-projectile Clovis stone debitage and tools that provided the unmistakable diagnostic hallmarks critical for the recognition and interpretation of the site as Palaeoamerican.

Vance (2011: 138), in her detailed analysis of the 294 lithic artifacts comprising the Lime Ridge assemblage, concluded that the site ‘was occupied for only a short period of time. perhaps a week or less’ and suggested that the main objective of the stop-off by the ancient hunters may have been ‘the replenishment of tools damaged in a successful hunting endeavor’ (Vance 2011: 95).

Based on distribution patterns of isolated Clovis points and known sites in the American Southwest, it has been concluded that Clovis hunters primarily chose rivers as travel corridors. The fact that Lime Ridge is situated near the San Juan River seems to corroborate this observation. It is also expressed by Davis (1989:75) when he posits that ‘the movements of the Clovis people were mainly confined to the San Juan River Valley’ near the Lime Ridge site. The encampment itself on top of the narrow ridgeline is situated near a saddle that may have attracted game animals seeking a passage to the river.

While there can be little doubt that the artist who pounded the two mammoth depictions at Upper Sand Island must have been intimately familiar with the animal, there is no way of establishing whether it was a hunter from the Lime Ridge camp who was responsible for their portrayal.”

Readers we live in exciting times. One old discovery that went un-noticed in the past can now be easily figured out!

For example, we were all taught in school the cavemen (ancestors?) were stupid animals. Nothing can be further from the truth and totally wrong. Our ancestors were Mammoth hunters. Archaeological discoveries now are helping us learn more truth about our ancient cousins. We used to think the large stone spear points of the “Clovis People” were the mammoth hunters; but there has been a new discovery of an earlier human culture with even bigger (8-9 inch) spear points lost in time and dust.

“There is ever-more compelling archaeological proof for a pre-Clovis entrance into North America that clearly challenges the long-held theory that ‘Clovis people’ (c. 12.8 to 13.1 ka {THOUSAND YEARS AGO}) were the first to inhabit the New World. Among some of the most recent revelations is a large artefactual assemblage at the Debra L. Friedkin site in central Texas that, dated by optically stimulated luminescence to c. 13.2 and 15.5 ka, stratigraphically underlies a Clovis horizon (Walters et al. 2011).

By the same token, it could have been post-‘Clovis people’ that artified the cliff section at Upper Sand Island with its exceptional rupestrian palaeo-complex, provided it can be shown that there existed refuge areas on the Colorado Plateau where proboscids survived beyond the generally accepted extinction threshold for mega fauna in the American West.

For this reason the demise of the Huntington Canyon mammoth, the best-preserved Mammuthus columbi skeleton in the American West was cited, at c. 11 ka, as a minimum age for the creation of the imagery (Malotki and Wallace 2011: 149–150).”

There is no guarantee your New Year resolution to get outside more for personal health will open a new exciting world of research into our Americans ancestors; but one never really knows. Be aware of things around you look for missing historic clues.

Get out there readers – at least go take a “Healthy hike” daily – that are a great New Year’s Resolution!

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