Joe Rogan Experience #2546 - Michael Button · Aired Aug 26, 2026
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A camel pelvis found in situ with stone tools at the Hueyatlaco site was dated to 250,000 years old.
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A 250,000 year age for the Hueyatlaco site is a real published figure, from a 1981 analysis by geologist Virginia Steen-McIntyre and colleagues based on uranium and fission track dating of the sediment. But mainstream archaeologists largely reject that date as implausible, since stone tools that advanced aren't otherwise seen anywhere in the Americas until tens of thousands of years later, and the specific detail of an in situ camel pelvis isn't something we could confirm.
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Is it true that a camel pelvis found in situ with stone tools at the Hueyatlaco site was dated to 250,000 years old?
Partly. The claim stretches what the evidence shows. A 250,000 year age for the Hueyatlaco site is a real published figure, from a 1981 analysis by geologist Virginia Steen-McIntyre and colleagues based on uranium and fission track dating of the sediment. Michael Button said it (matched by voice) on Joe Rogan Experience #2546 - Michael Button, aired Aug 26, 2026, at 2:01:24. The supporting source is en.wikipedia.org, linked below.
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