BARNWELL, South Carolina, June 24 - On a hillside by the Savannah River, under tall oaks bearded with Spanish moss, an archaeologist and a graduate student crouched in the humid depths of a trench. They had reason to think they were in the presence of a breathtaking discovery.
Or at the least, they were on to something more than 20,000 years old that would throw American archaeology into further turmoil over its most contentious issue: when did people first reach America, and who were they?...
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Then you have this:
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/sasalum/newsltr/spring04/amazon.html
A lot of this was in an Atlantic Monthly article called 1491...I used to subscribe to that magazine before I moved here and had to watch my budget...and it pointed a lot of this out...http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/prem/200203/mann
And lots of archeology links can be found HERE: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1173106/posts?page=295#295
It's a right wing site, but has stuff like this and on religion that give me a headsup...If the daily Kos had articles on the clovis point, I'd probably read that too....
excuse the links...blogger or my computer is on strike again.//
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