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"Daryl Krupa" <icycalmca@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> "Bob Keeter" <rkeeter@earthlink.net> wrote in message
news:<N9dec.3382$l75.1363@newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net>...
>   I like the theory that the sites most likely to have had evidence
> of human habitation at earlier dates, further north, have been
> plowed up by glaciers, covered with loess, scoured out by glacial
> meltwater, buried under alluvium, mined for marl or bat guano, or
> maybe never had anything that could easily be recognised as having
> been the result of early human activity before it was irrevocably
> disturbed by modern humans and their advanced technology.
>
> Daryl Krupa

I am not knowledgable about North America at all, so this little report from
2000 is probably old hat...  But apparently not every thing gets chewed up
by those glaciers:

http://www.centerfirstamericans.com/mt.html?a'

"
Perhaps there is a new source of data that can illuminate the pre-glacial
period: Chobot Site FfPq-3. In 1983 and 1984 the Chobots investigated the
cobble beads. Moraines had formed over the cobble beads, presumably from the
glacial episode that closed the ice-free corridor. On top of the moraine
deposits they found artifacts of Clovis culture that undoubtedly date to a
period after 14,000 years ago, when the climate had improved and burgeoning
vegetation could have supported animal life. But they also found artifacts
under the moraines. What is more astonishing, they have found two layers of
cultural soils under the cobble beds. It would appear that humans have
subsisted here, or at least passed through on their search for better
climes, well before Clovis."


Val